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Les Sept Jours du talion

(The Seven Days of Talion)

Without imitating King's style, Patrick Senécal successfully draws the reader in as forcefully as the master of American horror. Québec français

Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne

His name is Bruno Hamel, he is thirty-eight years old and a surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his small family - his wife Sylvie and Jasmine, his seven-year-old daughter. Like all happy people, he has an unremarkable life. Until Jasmine is raped and murdered on a beautiful autumn afternoon. From that moment on, the world of the Hamel family crumbles. When the police arrest the murderer, a terrible plan takes root in Bruno's darkening mind : he will snatch the monster and make him pay for what he did to Bruno's little girl. The day of the murderer's arraignment, Hamel, who has carefully prepared the operation, kidnaps the monster and sends a laconic message to the authorities : the man who has raped and killed his little girl is going to suffer for seven days, after which he will be executed. Then, and only then, Bruno will give himself up. Les Sept Jours du talion (Seven Days of Talion), a suspense novel of rare intensity, from which no one, especially not the reader, will emerge unscathed.

Patrick Senécal Les Sept Jours du talion (The Seven Days of Talion) 333 pages, $14.95