François Médéline

L’ange rouge

The Red Angel

October 1, 2020
Thriller
416 pages
140 × 200 mm
21,90 €
9782358876964
978-2-3588-7696-4
																François Médéline, L’ange rouge
																François Médéline, L’ange rouge

A noir novel in the tradition of James Ellroy or Dennis Lehane, with many fascinating ramifications, which takes you on the trail of a serial killer in love with macabre beauty.

At nightfall, a raft enters Lyon carried by the black waters of the Saône. On the boat, flaming torches, a wooden cross, a mutilated body superbly decorated with the delicate design of an orchid. The crucified of the Saone, macabre and fantastical staging, becomes the challenge of captain Alain Dubac and his team. Six of them investigate to find out who is the man thus found and who is his executioner, the craziest case they have ever worked on. They then set out in a race against time to stop a killer who will force them to go against all the rules and their deepest convictions.

Carried by François Médéline’s brilliant and explosive pen, L’ange rouge invites its reader to a hallucinated dive among the shadows of the city and the wounded souls struggling there.

The author

Born in 1977 in the Lyon region, François Médéline was a researcher at Science Po Lyon during his doctorate, specializing in political sociology and linguistics. He worked in politics for ten years before embarking on writing, influenced by James Ellroy. He has been published at La Manufacture de livres since 2014, where La politique du tumulte, Les rêves de guerre, Tuer Jupiter and L’ange rouge (2020) were published. La sacrifiée du Vercors is his first novel to be published by 10/18.

Strong points

The first volume of a police series devoted to the investigations of a group of Lyon cops.

October 1, 2020
Thriller
416 pages
140 × 200 mm
21,90 €
9782358876964
978-2-3588-7696-4