Nicolas Feuz: “Jean-Christophe Grangé’s books pushed me to write”

Published on December 21, 2024 at 11:51. / Modified on December 21, 2024 at 11:58.

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“Will I dare to read your book?” The director of the Tuilière prison, in Lonay in the canton of Vaud, was initially concerned, because it is in the female prisoners' sector of his establishment that most of the THE Extraditedthe latest book by Nicolas Feuz. “At your own risk,” replied the author teasingly, who admits to having transformed it, for his romantic needs, into a “Mexican prison.” In this thriller alternating behind closed doors in prison and an investigation in the field, where the life of a kidnapped teenager is at stake, both the interpersonal relationships in Lonay and certain scenes – notably torture by simulacrum of drowning – are worthy of sadistic American series. certain.

However, “two thirds of the story are freely inspired by a true story,” underlines Nicolas Feuz, who knows a lot about it as a prosecutor in Neuchâtel. So with the character of Clem, imprisoned for having told the police that she had been cheated out of 20,000 francs, with which she was in fact trying… to have her husband murdered! “After having explored different facets of violence against women in other books, I wanted to deal with one of the situations where it is the woman who loses control, for example trying to regain custody of her children from at all costs, and going so far as to accuse the ex-spouse of sexual abuse.” We will not reveal more, especially since Nicolas Feuz, knitting his plot in a clever chronology of which he has the secret, always excels in the art of the final twist.

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