For good reason, the detective novel Entre deux mondes, a real success published by Michel Lafon in France and released in 2018, is currently causing a sensation in other countries. Named Between Two Worlds in the United Kingdom, it was voted best detective novel of 2024 by two British media.
Between two worlds by Olivier Norek, what is it about?
Between Two Worlds is one of the author’s most emblematic novels Olivier Norek. We follow the story of Adam who sends his wife and daughter 6000 km away to flee the regime of his country at war. The project is, at first, simple. He intends to join them so that they can rebuild themselves and envisage a future far from this bloodthirsty regime. But once Adam arrives safely, he doesn’t find them.
Instead, he discovers places without authorities or law where crimes run rampant. So much so that the police don’t even set foot there. Adam, a cop, decides to intervene as soon as he witnesses a first crime. He then launches into an investigation with the hope of also finding his wife and daughter, Nora and Maya. Already released in 2018, Entre deux mondes, published in Editions Michel Lafon had caused a sensation in France. This detective novel exciting had even received the Blood of Ink Prize for high school students that year.
Between two worlds, Olivier Norek
Between two worlds, Olivier Norek
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Olivier Norek, multi-awarded detective novel writer
If since the release of Entre deux mondes, Olivier Norek has written other successful novels such as Surface or Impact and recently, The Winter Warriorsstill published by Editions Michel Lafon, this 2018 novel probably continues to fascinate. It is abroad that this detective novel, six years after its release in French bookstores, won an award. The magazines The Times and The Sunday Time elected the work best detective novel of the year 2024.
A great joy for Olivier Norek which he shared on his Instagram account. “Named detective novel of the year by The Times et The Sunday Times : Between two worlds -Between Two Worlds. An honor like no other! Thank you so much Great Britain,” he wrote in a post revealing the good news to his more than 16,000 subscribers on the social network.
No doubt, Olivier Norek has a string of successes, he who was also recently winner of the Jean Giono Prize a you Renaudot prize for high school students for The Winter Warriors.
