Mamie Luger Philippon, Benoît

Six o'clock in the morning: Berthe, one hundred and two years old, ducks the police squad that stormed his auvergnate cottage. Eight o'clock: Inspector Ventura starts the most amazing police custody of his career. The grandmother at the Luger emptys her bag, and the story of her life is a fireworks fire. There is talk of cavalry murderers, black widows and Nazi buried in his cellar. So... Aveux, confession or settlement of accounts? Ventura does not know what game of dupes is playing the old edentee, but he feels that it will have to dig. And not just a little bit. Poetic, realistic, cynical, moving and captivating. A text of high dromatic and emotional intensity. Read.A deploling black novel where it is a question of war, hatred, love and therefore d