The Crime of Count Neville, of Amélie Nothomb

The crime of the Earl of Neville
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The focus of this novel by Amélie Nothomb, its cover, its synopsis, reminded me of the setting of the first Hitchcock. That esoteric touch that slipped through the cosmopolitan life of cities in the early twentieth century. And the truth is that there was nothing wrong with my interpretation at first sight.

Count Neville, burdened by his declining financial situationBut steadfast in her will to maintain the appearance of opulence and aristocratic splendor, she encounters a more serious problem when her youngest daughter disappears.

Only the lucky encounter of the teenager with a psychic saved the young woman from a death by hypothermia in the middle of the forest. The scene already anticipates something mysterious, since the young woman has appeared curled up, as if alienated, upset by something that we do not know at the moment ...

Mister Henri Neville prepares to pick up his daughter, but the seer previously offers him a free premonition that turns him into a future murderer during a party that he will celebrate at his house. The first idea is to associate this future murder with someone who has disturbed, violated the count's daughter, and the reader may be right, the point is that in this simple way, with a setting not without fantasy, you are caught up in what is to happen.

A point of mystery, certain drops of terror and the good work of a pen that shows character profiles and possible motivations for evil in the dim light, adorning the scenes to the precise point where the description is a taste and not a load, something essential for a novel designed to maintain intrigue.

When the day of the Garden party arrives, a common commemoration in the castle of the Neville, the reading is launched on a frantic journey, wishing to reach that moment in which the prediction may or may not be fulfilled, needing to know the reasons for the possible homicide, while the set of characters wander mysteriously through the plot, with a kind of sinister upper-class elegance.

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