Le Rouge idéal Livre Audio par Jacques Côté

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Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Titre: Le Rouge idéal Auteur: Jacques Côté Narrateur: Alain Cadieux Format: Unabridged Durée: 8 hrs and 26 mins Langue: Français Date de publication: 11-21-17 Éditeur: Audible Studios Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense Résumé de l'éditeur: Car je ne puis trouver parmi ces pâles roses / Une fleur qui ressemble à mon rouge idéal. Ces vers tirés des Fleurs du mal de Baudelaire acquièrent soudain un charme vénéneux quand on les retrouve en exergue du Rouge idéal, cinquième roman de Jacques Côté. Pourquoi? On le comprendra dès les premières pages de cette seconde enquête menée par le lieutenant Daniel Duval, de la Sûreté du Québec, qui a fait ses premières armes dans Nébulosité croissante en fin de journée. Au cours du mois d'octobre 1979, on découvre, dans un collège de jeunes filles de Québec, une main coupée, empalée sur un piquet de clôture. Enroulée autour de l'index, telle une funeste alliance, une bande de papier sur laquelle quelqu'un a écrit: Mes amours décomposés. La veille, à l'Université Laval, on a trouvé dans un boisé le cadavre d'un chien dépecé au scalpel puis, sur les murs d'un corridor, un graffiti en lettres rouges: Au bout de ton sang, femelle. Pour traquer ce malade misogyne fou de poésie, Daniel Duval devra reléguer au second plan ses angoisses de père et sa relation naissante avec Laurence. Le Rouge idéal permet à Jacques Côté d'entrer de plain-pied dans le cercle restreint des auteurs de polar made in Québec. Cover artwork by Bernard Duchesne.

In Pale Battalions Audiobook by Robert Goddard

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: In Pale Battalions Author: Robert Goddard Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 12-19-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense Publisher's Summary: Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin.... Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. But the date of his death is surprising and reveals that Captain John Hallows cannot possibly have been Leonora's real father. This is only the start of a series of revelations that span three generations of a distinguished aristocratic family who are not what they seem. Penelope must piece together a tale of war, of loss, of greed, deception and vice - and the perpetrator of a murder left unsolved for more than half a century.... Members Reviews: The "feeling" of the Great War. In 1988, British novelist Robert Goddard published a multi-generational novel called, "In Pale Battalions". Set in England and the battlefields of France and Picardy during the Great War, Goddard has written an excellent novel that exposes feelings and attitudes of those fighting at the time, and how their lives and sacrifices trickled down to affect future generations, as well as the madness and the lies and deceptions resulting from certain mad acts. It's now almost 30 years after publication of the original book, and 2014 is the 100th year anniversary of the beginning of that war. It's a fine time to discover Goddard's novel. We have been deluged so far with books about the Great War, both fiction and non-fiction. While the works of non-fiction tell the best story of the war with facts, many works of fiction tell the "feeling" of the war. The story in "Pale Battalions" is very complicated and is told in the first-person voices of three characters. All these characters interacted - to a degree - between 1904 and 1969, but the story they tell is all a bit compromised because they are somewhat "unreliable narrators". But does having an "unreliable narrator" mean that we - the readers - shouldn't believe what they're saying? I don't think so in this case. Basically, this story is about Leonora Gallaway and her search for the truth of her family. Supposedly conceived 11 months after the death of her father in battle, she was mistreated by her father's family after her mother died in childbirth and she was turned over to their care. Secrets that seemingly began in that secluded country house during the war, actually began a few years earlier. Identities were blurred, murders occurred - both on and off the battlefield - and the revelations which come out years after the war are shocking to the reader. "In Pale Battalions" is expertly written by Robert Goddard. While some reviewers have written that the pace is slow, I think most readers interested in the period and the characters will find it quite good. An Agatha Christie bodice ripper I was drawn to âIn Pale Battalionsâ because of its World War 1 background and the large number of 5-star reviews on the bookâs Amazon site. But I found the bookâs connection with WW1 exiguous, comprising only a few canned scenes in the trenches. I must also dissent from the 5-star majority, finding that the bookâs prime virtue, its complex plot, required characters who were mere automatons clanking through Goddardâs ingenious mechanism.

19. dec. 201713 h 44 min

Le Rouge idéal Livre Audio par Jacques Côté

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