Franck thilliez He is one of those young authors who are responsible for revitalizing a very particular genre. Neopolar, a subgenre of French crime novel, was born back in the 70s. For me it is an unfortunate label, like so many others. But humans are like that, we rationalize and classify everything. The idea is to consider this trend of crime novels without filters, in which an absolutely dark and marginal world is presented, given over to perversion, amorality and violence, in short: EVIL.
Entering to raise an investigation into macabre murders in suburban areas out of all order supposes, more than an adventure for the reader, an act of firm will to know the wild side of a world a few blocks from where the city inhabits normality.
They say that the readings accompany the times, the trend that never ends in a crime novel reflects a certain point of hopelessness ... the signs of the times that we have to live. Transcendence aside, and returning to the good of Franck thilliez, let's determine those 3 essential novels by this French author.
3 Recommended Novels by Franck Thilliez
Paranoia
Could this be a review of the old arguments of Agatha Christie. Those stories in which he introduced us to characters who were going to "fall" without us readers being able to find out what was happening. Only this review has a much blacker point.
The setting of a psychiatric hospital, the circumstances surrounding saddened characters... Let's say that it could be considered an Ágatha point but taken to the limit. And the great reference of the French thriller signs an exciting, high-voltage psychological novel that is impossible to forget. Ilan still hasn't recovered from the loss of his parents, who died under strange circumstances.
One morning Chloé, his ex-partner, reappears in Paris, who proposes that he embark on an adventure that he cannot refuse. Nine people locked up in an old isolated psychiatric complex in the middle of the mountain. Suddenly, one by one they begin to disappear. They find a first body. Murdered. Paranoia is unleashed.
Pandemic
The world awaits its apocalyptic end ... As for the knot of the plot, the main guideline is that in this case the investigation advances with that unsettling point of global tragedy that every apocalyptic work accompanies. The truth is that we currently live immersed in the feeling of biological threat.
The increase in the consumption of antibiotics immunizes viruses and bacteria; climate change favors the approach of insects to areas where it seemed unthinkable before; geographic mobility uses people to move diseases from one place to another. A real risk that this novel addresses with that sense of credibility that reality itself brings.
Because it is even worse to think about the capacity for destruction of human beings under spurious economic interests. Amandine Gúerin knows first-hand everything about infectious diseases, with their current unpredictable evolution. The police officers Franck Sharko and Lucie Henebelle (regulars in the work already published by this author in his native country), rely on her to find the origin of a threatening pandemic that is spreading uncontrollably.
The first clues point to unscrupulous gangs dealing with organs. While the police try to find culprits, Amandine will keep a greater responsibility on her shoulders, to find the antidote, to search against the clock for the solution to the catastrophe. Animals have always adapted better to great threats.
Maybe the answer and the solution lies in them. For more than 600 pages we will see ourselves immersed, night after night (or those other moments in which each one devotes himself to reading), in an apocalypse hanging over humanity, like a bad omen anticipated by the drift taken in the world with the intervention of man.
Mourning honey
One of the star characters of this author is Franck Sharko. We always find works by writers in which they give a special role to these characters with whom they coexist so frequently. It is the case of this novel ...
At a time when the personal life of Commissioner Franck Sharko seems to hit rock bottom, after losing his wife and daughter in an accident, he faces one of the most macabre and enigmatic cases that anyone has ever had to face: the apparition. of a kneeling young woman, completely naked, shaved and whose organs seem to have exploded, inside a church.
Everything seems to be the result of a horrifying rite, or to constitute an apocalyptic message, but what will put the commissioner on the right track will be some small butterflies, still alive, found inside the victim's skull.
