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18.3: Une année à la PJ
"Il est des crimes qui vous habitent ; des crimes qui font plus mal que les autres et vous ne savez pas toujours pourquoi. Vous êtes cueilli par surprise, au moment où vous vous y attendiez le moins, par un détail qui vous laissera le cœur en pièces. Ils se figent en vous comme une écharde dans la chair et tout autour la plaie ne cesse plus de s’infecter. Un jour, les tissus se reconstruisent enfin – ce mort-là fait désormais partie de vous.
Pour Monika, l’adjointe de la Crime, c’est une petite fille disparue il y a longtemps. Pour JeanJean, qui préfère depuis lors se concentrer sur la téléphonie, c’est une grand-mère dans un pavillon misérable.
Pour Yohan, tout le monde le sait, c’est Clara."
C'est la première fois que la PJ française ouvre ses portes à une romancière, embarquée un an auprès des brigades criminelles. Avec empathie et humour noir, Pauline Guéna restitue l’alternance d’adrénaline, de férocité et d’accablement qui fait le rythme des enquêtes.
18.3 est un voyage au cœur de la part sombre des hommes.
Pour Monika, l’adjointe de la Crime, c’est une petite fille disparue il y a longtemps. Pour JeanJean, qui préfère depuis lors se concentrer sur la téléphonie, c’est une grand-mère dans un pavillon misérable.
Pour Yohan, tout le monde le sait, c’est Clara."
C'est la première fois que la PJ française ouvre ses portes à une romancière, embarquée un an auprès des brigades criminelles. Avec empathie et humour noir, Pauline Guéna restitue l’alternance d’adrénaline, de férocité et d’accablement qui fait le rythme des enquêtes.
18.3 est un voyage au cœur de la part sombre des hommes.
496 pages, Pocket Book
Published October 14, 2021
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July 4, 2025
Le fond est bon, pas la forme. L’écriture est saccadée et ne prend pas assez le temps de nous décrire les gens ni les lieux. Résultat, on se fait balader entre services, passer de flic en flic sans trop jamais savoir qui on ne suit, ni où on est. Peut-être était-ce l’intention, ce côté « docu télé qui vous emmène sur le terrain » mais pour un lecteur ça empêche le rapprochement. On regarde de loin sans jamais vraiment creuser les personnages et les situations. C’est dommage, le sujet est intéressant et il y avait du potentiel pour faire bien plus avec.
June 21, 2025
18.3 Une Anee A La PJ aka A Year With The Judiciary Police by Pauline Guena https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
9 out of 10
At the start of the story, we learn that an important percentage of crimes committed are never solved and then we see why – spoiler alert, since it is unlikely that you will read this, then search for this rather obscure work, or try to see the film adaptation on Cinemax or HBO Go, there will be some disclosures here
The Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar has the most popular lectures in the history of that Ivy League Institution https://realini.blogspot.com/2015/03/... with one in five students enrolling for his presentations, which are erudite, accessible, and suggest many rules we should follow
He also insists on the platinum rule, that has us give attention to ourselves, and then he says that ‘it is alright to feel less ebullient at times, experience periods of low energy and so on’, the only ones that do not feel this, or anything else are the dead and the psychopaths’, words to that effect, and we have psychos here
A young, beautiful woman – I think she was twenty-one – is killed and then we have to see if the killer is identified – although this happens almost immediately after you jump in, a second warning might be justifiable, even if I do not know what the ending says, and if you know the subject, maybe you tell me what the significance is…
Clara is not just assassinated, she is burned alive, or carbonized as Marceau says – one important merit of this narrative is (aside from the fact that it is based on real events) that the characters are so compelling and we get access to their issues, especially in the case of Marceau, who might be separated soon
One evening, after long hours – one of the newer detectives is in fact asking about payment for extra time, and the others are relaxed about it, with the idea that they will not be compensated and anyway, why is he so worried, from this early stage – Marceau walks and enters the car of his superior, Yohan, who is younger
The more mature man explains how he has tried to have children with his wife lately, but some time back, she had found a lover, and he thought this will be a passing mood, but then, after only three months or so, she comes home and says that she is pregnant, and not just that, but that she wants a divorce
This will clearly affect Marceau, he will clash violently with one of the suspects at a later stage, starting to beat that gruesome man, one of many who could have (maybe even did) kill poor Clara- this was Vincent Caron, a married ghoul, who had beaten his wife so bad that she had a broken mandibula and a multitude of other injuries
Alas, this is not the only creep that could have murdered the young woman, who was very vulnerable, as her girlfriend would say, she fell in love quickly, and had a penchant for bad characters, disgusting, selfish, pathetic individuals, one worse than the other, and willing to take advantage, one of them burning her alive eventually
One of the investigated is rapper, and in his lyrics, he introduced the idea of setting the girl on fire, they have slept together, he is not happy with the continuation, the monster complains he does not have money for a room and wants her to provide the place for coitus, and in the song, he talks of cocktail Molotov and more
Then there is another savage, base, horrible creature – when Marceau and another policeman come to talk to him, this sick bastard talks with ease about them having sex, how he has an ‘official girlfriend’ who does not know about Clara, he did not care she had a boyfriend, who probably did not know, he is not jealous
But then the psychopath starts laughing, we may think he could cry, but he actually laughs, and Marceau is baffled, and asks him if he knows how the girl died and tells him she was carbonized and the crazy idiot laughs again, would you let this one go, is he not the one that seems the prime suspect, what would you say?
Well, this is not the end of the line with atrocious scum, for we have another, who has sent a lighter through the post, and when we meet him, we see that this is another Orange Jesus, a diabolical show off, who claims he too had had sex with the dead victim, though he is contradicted on that by the girlfriend
The trouble is that these suspects have alibis, in the case of Vincent Caron, he is living with an ‘institutrice’ aka a teacher, who maintains that he was with her on the Night of the 12th, no matter how much we dispute that, hearing the messages the bastard has sent, violent, threatening and considering his violent past
There is another situation which looks like a break, for they install cameras, they get some money for surveillance, there is a new judge who wants the mystery of the murder solved – in France, they have le judge d’instruction, somebody who is supervising the inquest, and she is determined to get the killer in the case
They could not fund the cameras, when the financing stopped, but now they see a man coming to the grave, singing something which they translate with the help of a deaf and dumb person, able to understand what this fellow said, they did not have microphone to the camera…anyway, it proves to be another blind alley
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Heritage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
9 out of 10
At the start of the story, we learn that an important percentage of crimes committed are never solved and then we see why – spoiler alert, since it is unlikely that you will read this, then search for this rather obscure work, or try to see the film adaptation on Cinemax or HBO Go, there will be some disclosures here
The Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar has the most popular lectures in the history of that Ivy League Institution https://realini.blogspot.com/2015/03/... with one in five students enrolling for his presentations, which are erudite, accessible, and suggest many rules we should follow
He also insists on the platinum rule, that has us give attention to ourselves, and then he says that ‘it is alright to feel less ebullient at times, experience periods of low energy and so on’, the only ones that do not feel this, or anything else are the dead and the psychopaths’, words to that effect, and we have psychos here
A young, beautiful woman – I think she was twenty-one – is killed and then we have to see if the killer is identified – although this happens almost immediately after you jump in, a second warning might be justifiable, even if I do not know what the ending says, and if you know the subject, maybe you tell me what the significance is…
Clara is not just assassinated, she is burned alive, or carbonized as Marceau says – one important merit of this narrative is (aside from the fact that it is based on real events) that the characters are so compelling and we get access to their issues, especially in the case of Marceau, who might be separated soon
One evening, after long hours – one of the newer detectives is in fact asking about payment for extra time, and the others are relaxed about it, with the idea that they will not be compensated and anyway, why is he so worried, from this early stage – Marceau walks and enters the car of his superior, Yohan, who is younger
The more mature man explains how he has tried to have children with his wife lately, but some time back, she had found a lover, and he thought this will be a passing mood, but then, after only three months or so, she comes home and says that she is pregnant, and not just that, but that she wants a divorce
This will clearly affect Marceau, he will clash violently with one of the suspects at a later stage, starting to beat that gruesome man, one of many who could have (maybe even did) kill poor Clara- this was Vincent Caron, a married ghoul, who had beaten his wife so bad that she had a broken mandibula and a multitude of other injuries
Alas, this is not the only creep that could have murdered the young woman, who was very vulnerable, as her girlfriend would say, she fell in love quickly, and had a penchant for bad characters, disgusting, selfish, pathetic individuals, one worse than the other, and willing to take advantage, one of them burning her alive eventually
One of the investigated is rapper, and in his lyrics, he introduced the idea of setting the girl on fire, they have slept together, he is not happy with the continuation, the monster complains he does not have money for a room and wants her to provide the place for coitus, and in the song, he talks of cocktail Molotov and more
Then there is another savage, base, horrible creature – when Marceau and another policeman come to talk to him, this sick bastard talks with ease about them having sex, how he has an ‘official girlfriend’ who does not know about Clara, he did not care she had a boyfriend, who probably did not know, he is not jealous
But then the psychopath starts laughing, we may think he could cry, but he actually laughs, and Marceau is baffled, and asks him if he knows how the girl died and tells him she was carbonized and the crazy idiot laughs again, would you let this one go, is he not the one that seems the prime suspect, what would you say?
Well, this is not the end of the line with atrocious scum, for we have another, who has sent a lighter through the post, and when we meet him, we see that this is another Orange Jesus, a diabolical show off, who claims he too had had sex with the dead victim, though he is contradicted on that by the girlfriend
The trouble is that these suspects have alibis, in the case of Vincent Caron, he is living with an ‘institutrice’ aka a teacher, who maintains that he was with her on the Night of the 12th, no matter how much we dispute that, hearing the messages the bastard has sent, violent, threatening and considering his violent past
There is another situation which looks like a break, for they install cameras, they get some money for surveillance, there is a new judge who wants the mystery of the murder solved – in France, they have le judge d’instruction, somebody who is supervising the inquest, and she is determined to get the killer in the case
They could not fund the cameras, when the financing stopped, but now they see a man coming to the grave, singing something which they translate with the help of a deaf and dumb person, able to understand what this fellow said, they did not have microphone to the camera…anyway, it proves to be another blind alley
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Heritage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
March 28, 2022
Impossible de finir ce livre, je me suis arrêtée à la page 71. Mal écrit, plein de sexisme, islamophobie, putophobie et mots d'argot qu'on n'utilise même plus de nos jours. L'histoire est inexistante, les personnages insignifiants ou tout au mieux pas aimables (mais même pas détestables). Les dialogues sont un condensé de banalités inintéressantes. L'ensemble du livre est fade.
May 21, 2022
« La mort, ça déshabille. Vous me comprenez ? On n’a plus de secrets. Et on ne peut même plus se défendre. »
December 14, 2023
Excellent !
March 3, 2025
Une livre comme un documentaire, inoubliable et intime.
November 13, 2023
Très bon ce livre. Le film La Nuit du 12 est basé sur le dernier chapitre, sur le cas de Clara.
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