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La Folie Forcalquier

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"C'était un alignement de cinq cadavres dans un ordre parfait. À égale distance les uns des autres, les orteils dressés vers le ciel, les paletots reboutonnés, même s'il était patent qu'ils eussent subi quelque désordre, les mains ouvertes dans le prolongement des bras collés au corps, les yeux fermés et tous comme au garde-à-vous. On avait dû profiter de ce qu'ils étaient encore chauds pour procéder à cette mise en scène."

Crime politique, affrontement entre bandits de grand chemin ou implacable vengeance ? Félicien Brédannes, l'herboriste de Forcalquier qui fait cette macabre découverte, va, malgré lui et peut-être par amour pour la comtesse Gaussan, conduire l'enquête.

486 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1993

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Pierre Magnan

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Pierre Magnan was a bestselling French author of detective novels steeped in the sights and sounds of his beloved Provence; to readers, his sleuth, Commissaire Laviolette, was as indelibly linked to the land of lavender as Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse was to the colleges of Oxford.

Magnan’s autumnal years were prolific; he wrote more than 30 books and saw his novels adapted for French television and cinema. He was never afraid to experiment and shifted easily to non-fiction, writing, amongst other publications, a gentle portrait of Giono (Pour Saluer Giono, 1990), a study of Provençal novels (Les Romans de ma Provence, 1998) and two volumes of memoirs. In The Essence of Provence (1998) he followed the story of L’Occitane from roadside soap stand to globally known brand. “La Provence was present in all his books,” noted Marie-Laure Goumet, his editor at Robert Laffont.

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Un gioiellino:ben scritto, bella storia,ironico, moderno, una bellissima scoperta.
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