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Commissaire Laviolette #3

Le secret des Andrônes

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276pages. poche. broche.

276 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

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Pierre Magnan

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Pierre Magnan was a bestselling French author of detective novels steeped in the sights and sounds of his beloved Provence; to readers, his sleuth, Commissaire Laviolette, was as indelibly linked to the land of lavender as Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse was to the colleges of Oxford.

Magnan’s autumnal years were prolific; he wrote more than 30 books and saw his novels adapted for French television and cinema. He was never afraid to experiment and shifted easily to non-fiction, writing, amongst other publications, a gentle portrait of Giono (Pour Saluer Giono, 1990), a study of Provençal novels (Les Romans de ma Provence, 1998) and two volumes of memoirs. In The Essence of Provence (1998) he followed the story of L’Occitane from roadside soap stand to globally known brand. “La Provence was present in all his books,” noted Marie-Laure Goumet, his editor at Robert Laffont.

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September 4, 2021
Ravie par cette lecture. Pierre Magnan, après un premier effet de roman daté est un plaisir. La langue, l'écriture, et ce légèrement suranné et romantique inspecteur Laviolette. J'ai voyagé dans Sisteron, ses andrones, sa citadelle, et jusqu'aux Chartreuses. L'intrigue, Même si lente à démarrer, se tient, et la dernière partie du roman m'a tenue en haleine jusqu'au bout. Second roman de l'auteur, j'en lirai d'autres.
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August 28, 2024
Lecture surprenante que ce livre. Nous suivons un commissaire qui enquête le nez au vent comme il le dit lui même et qui résout les crimes par des impressions, des intuitions. Au premier abord j’ai été surpris par les descriptions des lieux, qui s’attardent plus sur des ambiances qu’un dessin précis des lieux. Mais finalement ce livre nous invite à suivre les traces de son commissaire : aller flâner dans les rues de Sisteron pour y goûter nous aussi l’ambiance !
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