What is there to read this week? Here are our journalists’ suggestions.
Posted at 4:00 p.m.
The Month of the Dead: A highly topical social thriller
“The Month of the Dead is a tight web of several cases that create a difficult time in the series for the police of Quebec City, but also of Longueuil, where Maud Graham’s adopted son Maxime becomes a patrol officer and begins to staff a special unit,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
The Gift of Lies: The Return of Commissioner Brunetti
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The gift of lying
“The Gift of Lying is not a major milestone in Donna Leon’s work, but we are happy to find the characters we love (or love to hate), such as the devoted Signorina Elettra and the perfidious Lieutenant Scarpa,” writes our journalist Marie Tison .
Lightning: The Shepherd’s Life
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lightning
“This novel, which was a finalist for the Femina Prize this fall, is a gentle evocation of the life of a shepherd who makes us dream of mountains and vast spaces where we can only hear the sheep bells ringing in the background. “ writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
Poor Fool: Anatomy of an Impossible Love
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Poor Madmen by Chloé Delaume
“Chloé Delaume completely won us over with her previous novel, The Synthetic Heart, about the ups and downs of a woman in her fifties’ heterosexual romantic relationships. […] She returns to us with Poor Madwoman, an autobiographical novel in which the narrator uses a train journey to reflect on a complex and doomed relationship with a gay man,” writes our columnist Nathalie Collard.
Just arrived at the bookseller
Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.