C'est pour ton bien

by Patrick Delperdange

Non, l'homme qu'elle a épousé n'est pas celui qui l'a frappée ! Ça ne se reproduira plus jamais, c'était juste un moment de folie. Et puis cela recommence. Camille ne reconnaît plus celui avec qui elle vit. Certains secrets restés trop longtemps enfouis sont plus dangereux qu'un poison mortel. Camille va l'apprendre à ses dépens.
Ce thriller domestique plonge le lecteur dans un monde trouble, où il est impossible de démêler le vrai du faux, jusqu'à la résolution finale. Auteur reconnu de romans noirs, Patrick Delperdange se réinvente en virtuose avec ce livre intimiste et dérangeant qui emporte le lecteur.

330 pages, Paperback

Published February 5, 2020

Reviews

[Gabrielle Blin ( book reviewer) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un livre incroyable qui m'a fait frisonner j'avoue...on va de surprises en surprises jusqu'à la révélation finale.La fin d'ailleurs laissé deux/trois questions en suspend à chacun d'imaginer ce qui a pu se passer ensuite.

[Baswood · Rating 2 out of 5]

C'est pour ton bien can be translated as 'for your own good' and when Pierre smacks his wife Camille in the mouth with a clenched fist at the start of this novel, the irony of the title is not lost. They have been married for a couple of years and Camille has just fallen pregnant and it is the first time that Pierre has been violent. When it happens again she packs her bag and walks out, but Pierre is able to force her to return home when he cuts off her money supply. This year in France there have been a number of headline cases in the news of extreme violence against women in the conjugal home. It has reached the proportions of a national scandal, but like other national scandals it is soon subsumed by other news items; for example France's Olympic team are winning medals in Japan. Delperdange is not concerned with Pierre's violence, after all he is going through a difficult period at work and so who can blame him for hitting his wife.

The story involves a jewellery robbery that went wrong; the owner of the store; Camille's father was shot. Camille then a young adolescent was the primary witness and her evidence sent the perpetrator to jail for 20 years. Her brother who is in dispute with her, over the family inheritance and a down and out man, who believes he is responsible for the botched robbery have stirred Pierre's interest in a possible scheme to make some money. Camille is the victim of all this male aggression, which comes as no surprise. The plot works itself out in a reasonable fashion and Camille manages to escape from her husband and her brother, but maybe only temporarily.

Delperdange is a Belgian author who specialises in crime fiction, he has also written for the young adult, and graphic novel market. I was not expecting anything wonderful when I took this off the library shelf and I wasn't disappointed. This is nothing more than an average crime fiction novel and so 2 stars.

[Debby · Rating 2 out of 5]

C'est quoi cette fin de merde?
C'est quoi ces dix mille questions restees sans réponse?

c'est quoi ce livre?

Quelle déception.

[Atlas · Rating 3 out of 5]

bonne lecture

[Constance · Rating 2 out of 5]

Je l'avais acheté pour me sensibiliser sur la question des femmes qui se font battres , le début était très bien et sensibilisant à propos de sujet puis l'évolution avec le kidnapping était plus que décevante, je m'attendais à voir comment une femme sous les menaces de son mari violent pouvais s'en sortir mais au final ça à fini sur un vielle histoire de famille
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