Nicolas Lebel likes to hunt. to the man. After Game etc Capturehere is the last volume of the furies trilogy, l’Hallali (all three published by Éditions du Masque). A return to the codes of the thriller that abuses the investigator but also allows him to solve cases as he sees fit. “They will be able to administer justice, the real thing, punishing the wicked and winning in the end when that of states has failed, and refraining from prosecuting criminals who fled beyond jurisdiction, beyond reach.” and protected from the highest authorities, conveniently installed in their immunity, in their impunity,” he writes in the preamble. Extensive program.
So here’s Yvonne Chen, a detective who watches TV while sipping mojitos and hits bars at night for adventures. Not very nice, Chen. “I tend to stage ‘assholes’declares to release Nicholas Lebel. Captain Mehrlicht from my first series, who smokes everyone out and hates a lot of people. Chen who has that freedom in tone and enjoying life by picking up guys before throwing them away.”. However, this inspector has a form of integrity. We got him “shoved his colleague”. And she wants to find those who did it, a group of criminals called the Furies. To achieve this, she will infiltrate the clan. Enjoy costume parties organized by two brothers fighting for control of a prestigious Vosges winery. Extravagant decor, refreshing atmosphere.
“When you write, you can make islands out of water or a mountain of earth”, commented Lebel. In order to document himself, he calls police officers he knows, such as Olivier Norek, whom he asks, for example, how to start a geolocation on a laptop. All in all it takes an hour. “As soon as the judge thinks there is a danger, it goes to the telephone service provider. For information, do not hesitate to get in touch with people whose area of expertise it is”, explains the author.
“In the Fryer” Characters
Lebel sums up his trademark. “I depict surprising and familiar situations of the thriller to defuse the usual code and inject another”. This English teacher, who has been teaching English for twenty-seven years, says he reads many thrillers, from Jean-Bernard Pouy to Jean-Patrick Manchette. He wants to take up social phenomena, including helping to fight the Nazi Party Congress “a social and contemporary background”. Nicolas Lebel drives his characters insane and the reader with them.
Who is manipulating whom? Who is suing whom? Who is chasing whom? “She gained confidence, started running under the huge moon, took about ten steps and slipped. She fell face down in the lake, her eyes wide, terrified at the thought of being carried away alone in the dead of night, swallowed up by an icy death. But the crust still resisted […]. She was a few yards from shore when the surface gave way […]. His clothes, suddenly swollen from the water, pulled him to the ground […].» Nicolas Lebel loves to immerse himself in his characters “in the fryer”. His readers blame him by asking him why he enjoys murdering their hero in this way. “Because you loved him”, he replies treacherously. His tenth novel will be a prison thriller next year. He now often plays Dungeons and Dragons with fellow crime writers. Like children who like to write about death.
Nicolas Lebel takes part in the Quais du Polar in the heart of Lyon this weekend. Due to the large number of authors present at this festival, we publish a crime column every day until Sunday.
l’halali, Nicolas Lebel, editions of the mask, 288 pages, 21.90 euros
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