Not knowing where to tag an author already says a lot about his work. what of Herve Le Corre It is a disconcerting hybrid between French noir, still loaded with a lot of police flair, suspense and even historical thriller. So Le Corre plays with confusion, perhaps with that dedication to the craft of writing with that taste for duplicity. Because there is nothing better than writing as a release from other tasks (Le Corre is a teacher).
Mutated into a writer after midnight, or during vacations, one enjoys writing with a touch of infidelity and irreverence with reality itself and its daily impositions. Without a doubt a true privilege, a perfect space to spread your imagination without the alienating comfort of televisions, platforms and other screens...
In his literature, with increasing international significance, we find stories for all tastes. Of course, always maintaining a tension that addresses the psychological and even the social, according to the plot. Stories to "suffer" with that masochistic pleasure of every good reader of suspense, crime and other obscurities of our world... An author who halfway, with his particular twists and turns, between the Pierre Lemaitre more sophisticated in its background and the Bernard minier more dramatic in its rhythm, to mention two other greats of French noir.
Top 3 recommended novels by Hervé Le Corre
After the war
From the notion that antiheroes are the ones who almost always win in reality, this story comes to us after the Second World War in France trying to recover a rhythm of life still mired in old fears and shadows.
Bordeaux, fifties. A city full of wounds after the Second World War through which the disturbing silhouette of Commissioner Darlac walks, an unscrupulous policeman who collaborated with the Nazi regime. At the same time, far away but dangerously close, a new conflict begins: young people are called up in Algeria.
Daniel knows that this is his destiny. He lost his parents in the extermination camps and is an apprentice mechanic. One day, a stranger arrives at the garage where he works to repair his motorcycle. It's not by chance. His presence will unleash a wave of violence throughout the city while other crimes occur in Algeria. The war never ends.
Under the flames
Paris can boast of being one of the first autonomous cities in an exercise of insubordination that is barely remembered, but that points to the idea of the people as a group capable of attempting revolution until they achieve it. Through blood and conflict, yes, and facing the risks of anarchy that does not always seem the best option given the well-known human nature.
Through the streets of a city full of trenches, evil roams freely. Very young women are disappearing and suspicions center on a photographer whose work is somewhat peculiar.
One of the kidnapped women is Caroline, the fiancée of Sergeant Nicolas Bellec, a combatant on the commoner side. Nobody seems to have the key to the cellar where she is locked up, and when the troops of Versailles enter with blood and fire, there will be no escape.
The matter is investigated by a police officer with a marked sense of duty, Commissioner Antoine Roques. Theirs is a race against time to find the girl, while the inexorable end of the Commune approaches.
Dogs and wolves
There are environments that predict disasters only from their light currents of dead calm. A work that plays perfectly with that sharp, disturbing setting. The question is to get involved until you suffer that inescapable fear in the face of the most unfortunate predestination. Doom always awaits...
Franck is released from prison after serving a sentence, he did not want to betray his accomplice in a robbery: Fabien, his older brother. He welcomes him at his house Jessica, Fabien's girlfriend, they await his return from Spain, where he went to close a business. But the place where Franck arrives is a suffocating house that he must share with Jessica's family and a menacing dog.
Among the pines of the Landes de Gascogne, far from Bordeaux, summer brings a dense, humid and unhealthy heat that awakens the lowest instincts. Also, a violent gang harasses Jessica and her family. When the real reasons for his brother's absence come to light, Franck will once and for all leave behind his guise as a docile dog and become a ruthless wolf.
In Dogs and Wolves the speed of the thriller mixes with the dark tone of the crime novel and a unique psychological depth. Hervé Le Corre reveals himself as a writer capable of combining extremes: the lyricism of the wild landscape with the crudest human violence.
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descent into the night
Facilis descendus averno…as the Latin language proclaims. Every trip to the interiorities of the night is that descent into hell. The lightest souls are dyed black in cities of sin that invite you to take that walk to the wild side. Old sinister balances between appearances and harsh truths…
Police inspector Pierre Vilar is a man who has had everything taken from him. Pablo's ten-year-old son disappeared leaving school without a trace. Pierre's story intertwines with that of Victor, a boy who discovers the disfigured corpse of his mother on his way home from school. While the boy enters the bureaucratic mechanism of foster care with the ashes of her mother as his only company, Vilar investigates the woman's death and her links to a prostitution ring. But as the investigation takes shape, the past comes back with a vengeance: Vilar begins to receive sinister phone calls from a man who claims to know what happened to Pablo.
Set in a macabre and suffocating Bordeaux, Hervé Le Corre signs a very black, moving and ruthless novel, which transcends the genre and throws us into an underworld of child violence, prostitution and open wounds.
