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Every week, a reader reviews a favorite. Today, a murder and a gruff, stubborn sheriff.
The vast majority of people find their book among others on a full shelf or on a well-presented table in a bookstore. As for me, it was in my mother’s hands and I immediately knew that I had to take it, not only because my mother’s literary tastes should never be questioned, but above all because This was the second novel by Marie Vingtras [couronné du prix du roman Fnac cette semaine, ndlr].
A small, quiet town “with its two bingo clubs”
It is the end of April 2017, in Mercy, a small town lost in the American countryside. Lauren Hobler, the local sheriff, discovers, with one of her colleagues, the lifeless body of Leo Jenkis in the middle of a muddy bank and wild irises. In this little “quiet, almost sleepy town, with its two bingo clubs, its veterans’ association and its sheriff who prefers women”no lead seems valid. The murder of this teenager is a mystery. “Because nothing changes here.” After Blizzardthe story of a boy lost in a snowstorm in Alaska published in 2021 by L’Olivier, where each character gives their point of view in turn, Marie Vingtras maintains the suspense by leaving the
