"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and
Lazy Bird
✍ Scribed by Andrée A. Michaud
- Publisher
- Les Éditions Québec Amérique
- Year
- 2012;2009
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 289 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
«C'est le premier meurtre qui est le plus difficile, mais l'habitude se crée rapidement... »
Portée par des airs de jazz, Andrée A. Michaud signe ici un polar dont le héros pénètre bien malgré lui dans un univers où l'ombre du doute se fait de plus en plus pesante, soumettant ainsi le lecteur à une tension qui ne se relâchera pas avant qu'il n'ait tourné la dernière page de cette troublante confrontation avec la folie.
Qui est Lazy Bird ? Un oiseau rare ou un oiseau de malheur ? Une pièce musicale de John Coltrane ou une jeune fille perdue ayant un penchant prononcé pour le milk-shake, les gommes Bazooka et Jim Morrison ? Toutes ces réponses se valent, mais la véritable question est plutôt de savoir qui est la mystérieuse femme hantant les nuits de Bob Richard, animateur de radio à la station WZCZ de Solitary Mountain. Dès le jour où cet albinos marqué par son passé accepte de quitter le Québec et de s'exiler au Vermont pour y animer une émission de nuit, le sort en est...
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