One of the dead but alive
Of the dead offers a new investigation with the duo now well established: Victor Venturi, clone on paper by Lino Ventura and a young psycho-criminologist Olivia Montalvert nicknamed Mint in the Water in the Service.
Their exchanges are once again very funny because there is a lot of affection between them. It is not love but a deep friendship. Venturi sees Olivia like her daughter. He is Beauf, sexist, misogynist, retrograde. She is quite the opposite and the two complement each other well or even manage to take the faults of the other.
It takes all this human warmth to defuse the horror of crimes. An investigation that goes a hundred an hour with an elusive killer everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I curled overdose with twists and turns towards the end. It becomes a little difficult to know who is who. The chapters are ultra-short. We go from one character to another, from one situation to another, from one place to another. But Alexis Laipsker has fun. He gives the reader exactly what he is looking for with action, jokes, blood, horror, reversals, a little sex. It’s a game for him. And given the number of crazy crashes, he still has a lot of stories to tell.
