Today, dear readers, I present a series that has sold over 100,000 copies in Italy
A novel to be released on March 16
for Publisher NORTH
original title: Le Talisman de la Villette
Author: Claude Izner
Publisher: North
Collection: Fiction
pages: 352
Plot:
Paris, February 1894. is the coldest winter of the century and the city is buried subunit thick blanket of snow. Even in the library Elzevir, at number 18 rue des Saints-Peres, the atmosphere is nothing pocoglaciale. But through no fault of the climate. It is the arrival of MauriceLaumier, painter, inveterate womanizer and former rival in love VictorLegris, to freeze the soul. This time, however, Maurice Eveno not to quarrel but to seek help: a few settimanaprima, his dear friend vanished and now he fears ilpeggio. Victor can not wait to throw himself headlong into a nuovaavventura, and when the woman's body is found in pressidel Villette slaughterhouse, immediately rushed at deldelitto. And it is precisely in the narrow streets of this slum, traladruncoli and swindlers, that the bookseller detective s'imbattenell'unico-witness of the murder. Unfortunately the man rifiutadi talk than deliver a strange medallion coninciso a black unicorn. Following the trail of the mysterious jewel, Victor leaves the slums of Paris to immerse himself in the rites of unamisteriosa occult society, an environment so refined quantopericoloso, where the initiates are willing to do anything to keep their secrets: even kill ...
ClaudeIzner is nomde plume sisters Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre. AParigi Liliane was born in 1940 and, after working as montatricecinematografica, has long been Bouquin 'll see on the Seine. Laurence was born in 1951 and, after graduating inarcheologia, has published two novels. She also libraia.Parallelamente to their work, for several years sorellescrivono two novels, four hands, and it was their passion for laStoria and detective novels to push them to create the character diVictor Legris, bookseller and investigator in the Paris of the nineteenth secolo.Presso the North are already out of five investigations Victor: Ilmistero of ruedes Saints-Peres (2006), Père-Lachaise Ladonna (2007), Ildelitto rue Montmartre (2008), The assassinodel Marais (2009) and Ilrilegatore Batignolles (2010), proving a great success with critics and audiences.
The latest title in the series, "The Bookbinder of Batignolles" has exhausted the first edition in a month.
"A rare example of how to replicate ;
today the successful tradition of the feuilleton. "
Panorama.it
"A formula taste
-old yellow that works."
QN
" Suspense and elegance. "
Io Donna
" A fascinating reconstruction
Paris at the end of '800 '.
The Guardian
'AUTHOR:
Claude Izner is the pseudonym used by Liliane Korb (Paris, 1940) and his sister Laurence (Paris, 1951) to publish a series of crime novels from 2003. The name of art is made up of Claude, which in French is a name both men and women.
I grew up in a town outside Paris, Saint Mande, in economic conditions not very easy, and had to live in a hotel where you had to actually rent the furniture. His father was a bookseller
and this has facilitated the sisters in the profession is writers of that as a bookseller.
Liliane, after obtaining the French equivalent of Italian middle school, he worked for many years as a film editor, and currently, in addition to a writer, has a library on the right bank of the Seine.
Laurence, also known as Laurence Lefèvre, after high school she graduated in archeology and is also her librarian, but on the left bank, left bank of the Seine.
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