this new book will keep its fans waiting before the return of Martin Servaz!

Bernard Minier's loyal readers were able to discover, only a few months ago, the new adventures of his very tattooed Spanish policewoman Lucia Guerrero in THEErased. He then announced it: his next novel would return to the side of Toulouse and its first hero, Martin Servaz. The opportunity to once again explore his relationship with his nemesis, Julian Hirtmann, which early aficionados had already been able to discover in 2011 in Icethe very first volume of the Servaz investigations! Since then, seven other episodes have followed: The Circle, Don't turn off the light, Nuit, Sisters (which is a prequel!), The Valley, The Hunt et An eye in the night.

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Bernard Minier unveils fifteen short new texts

But it is a completely different work that the public was able to discover in bookstores from October 10: a pocket collection entitled Cats and 14 mysterious, diabolical, cruel stories ! As he explains on his Instagram account, these are fifteen texts that he wrote between 2004 and 2024. “ Fifteen stories of love and death, madness and revenge, greed and jealousy, fifteen dark stories, but also some fantastic, historical or anticipation stories! », he adds.

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Bernard Minier blurs the lines in his collection of short stories

On the program: love, war memories, suffering and cats of course, in a collection which seduced our colleagues from Liberation by its ability to cover its tracks: “ Without ever announcing – and this is one of the great successes of the work – into what genre it is leading us astray. Here, is the heroine in the grip of madness or pursued by a real killer? There, is the narrator dead or is he dreaming of his death? With what pirouette will this ultimate news conclude? Are we in the Horlaa Sherlock Holmes investigation or in the Tales from the Crypt ? » In short, there is something for all tastes… and all literary genres!