Books for summer

Culture. Nevertheless, For this summer. Nevertheless, a detective novel and an adventure novel both breathless: “The masters of the domain” by Jo Nesbo and “Fende l’Azur” by Agathe Portail.

• Jo Nesbo. Moreover, “Les Masters du Domaine”, Gallimard Editions Black Series

The latest novel by the creator of Inspector Harry Hole features two brothers whose boundless ambition had already been measured in the previous volume “The Domains”. Furthermore, No worries: the first pages summarizing the plot and the reader was launched very quickly in the action.

Everything happens not far from Oslo in a small rural community. Meanwhile, “a place where relentless solidarity and a sufficient culture of telling and envy are in perfect balance”. Consequently, The two Organd brothers have a sulphurous reputation: nothing was resistant to them. For example, they have gone masters in psychological pressure and the art of murder disguised as an accident. books summer For example, Carl, the very type of “alpha male”, invests in tourism with a hotel he wants to modernize and enlarge. Roy, the cadet, narrator of this story is his henchman but unlike his brother, he is intelligent and educated. He also plans to buy a campsite. However. a tunnel construction project can undermine all these sweet dreams because it supposes a deviation from the national road which would no longer pass through the village. Never mind. the two men will use the means of persuasion which have previously proven their effectiveness but this time they will meet a fierce resistance and the solidarity of the brothers will be crazy.

We find with pleasure the art that Jo Nesbo shows to draw up the painting of a closed circuit in vitriol which hides all forms of perversity. a world of vices and turpitudes from which few people escape.

“Fend the azure”. books summer Agathe Portail, Editions Actes Sud

Agathe Portail is also an author of detective novels but she writes here an adventure novel. She skillfully uses her science of suspense. romantic to meet the fate of three characters who have in common to live very difficult situations.

Anthony who lives in the southwest of France is an experienced fighter pilot. A flight of cranes that hit his burst during a training flight will change his life: he is injured. has lost an eye and can no longer fly. Now he only likes to fly, only knows how to fly and dark in depression. Chance makes him meet a breeder of hawks, this king of the azure who steals perfectly.

Roxane is also from the Southwest. She lived a difficult childhood with an abusive mother. She has become an eccentric artist who presents extreme performances where she shows off covered with animal remains. A Russian oligarch. books summer and offers to follow him in Mongolia where she will find an audience of hunters for her services. Once arrived at the scene, where are hawks used for hunting, she realizes that she has fallen into a trap.

Amaka. her family live in the Mongolian steppes while raising herds, it is the end of winter the spring is slow, the cold, the lack of food, her sick husband, put her in an inextricable situation. She will have to take care of the herd alone. her son who is small, organize transhumance towards green pastures without forgetting the hawk erected by her husband.

All three will have to fight against the elements. their pasts, their desired desires and be confronted with nature, wild life, the need for love and friendship.

Of our correspondent Françoise Ramillon