Published on : 04/23/2020 – 15:08Modified : 04/23/2020 – 15:06
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Paris (AFP)
The summer bestsellers whose publication had been postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic will be available in bookstores after the containment ends.
“This time it’s dear readers, the countdown has started: + La Vallée + that many of you will be waiting in bookstores on May 20”, announced on Thursday Bernard Minier, one of the major authors of the French thriller, on his account twitter.
Published by XO, “La Vallée” which marks the return of the investigator Martin Servaz, one of the recurring heroes of the author of “Glacé” or “M” was initially due to appear on April 2.
This thriller which takes place in a valley cut off from the world where we are witnessing a series of murders carefully staged, should make his readers shiver not with fever but with anxiety.
Another eagerly awaited book, “The enigma of room 622” (editions of Fallois) by the Swiss Joël Dicker, one of the most read French-speaking authors, will finally appear in bookshops on May 27, we learned on Thursday from his editor.
The book was originally due to be released in France on March 25.
The new novel by the winner of the Grand Prize for the novel of the French Academy and the Goncourt of high school students (for “The truth about the Harry Quebert affair”) takes place in Switzerland at several different times.
One night in December, a murder took place in a palace in the Alps. The police investigation will never be successful. Years later, at the beginning of summer 2018, the narrator (called “the writer” and looking madly like Joël Dicker himself) will spend holidays in this palace.
Spurred on by a British tourist on vacation, the writer will lend himself to the game, conduct the investigation and go back in time until the evening of the crime.
The nearly 600-page novel plays on pretenses and artifices. It is also a tribute book to the editor Bernard de Fallois, who disappeared in January 2018, the source of Joël Dicker’s success.
Calmann-Lévy editions had already announced a few days ago the publication on May 26 of Guillaume Musso’s new book “la vie est un roman”.
The novel by the favorite author of the French with more than 1.4 million copies of his books (all formats combined) sold in 2019, was originally due to be released on April 28.
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