"I decided, me, alive, healthy body and mind, to make my own hand my autopsy and dissection of my brain. "
In winter 1835, during the reign of Louis Philippe. In a Paris plagued by poverty and the attacks, police investigating a child killer, from the slums. All indices guide Allard, chief detective, and his deputy to Lacenaire, the famous poet assassin. Imprisoned at the Conciergerie, the latter spends his days receiving visitors and write his memoirs. Another crime occurs, revealing more similarities with those previously committed by Lacenaire. Allard decides to seek, to the dismay of his assistant, hoping to resolve this as quickly tortuous investigation. Between the police and the murderer is established an ambiguous relationship based on respect and handling. This collaboration led them backstage at a Paris mysterious and unhealthy. Criticized by his peers, Allard gradually bogged down in his questions: Lacenaire his friend is he involved in crimes? If this is the case, his participation in the survey risk does not interfere with the investigation and worsen the chaos?
"This novel is based on the life of Pierre-Francois Lacenaire, famous poet and murderer of the nineteenth century. Anxious to recreate the realism of the time, I still chose to treat the plot under a modern angle ... as was his way Lacenaire first offense "rock'n'roll" in the history of France. " (Michael Mention)
Born in 1979, Michael Mention wrote a dozen novels, including a first," The cold of the penguin "was published in 2008 by Editions du Rocher, another" Farewell Tomorrow "published in 2012 in Seaside / black, The Fantascope editions published jointly two of his novels which, while being able to read independently from each other, are inextricably linked," Founded in 1959 "And" The Secret Voice ", the second being the novel the character of the first writing in a creative and attractive original literary, Michael mentions that practice with skill ... and pleasure.
Frederick Fontès
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