Andrée A. Michaud

Bondrée

Tout juste arrivés au camping du lac aux Sables, Max, Laurence et Charlie sont enchantés par la beauté des lieux et se promettent des vacances de rêve. Pendant que la petite Charlie court se baigner, ses parents ouvrent une bouteille et trinquent à l’été. Puis un incident survient, qui fait pâlir le soleil, suivi d’un deuxième incident tournant à l’engueulade. Dans sa colère, Max insiste alors pour repartir aussitôt. Mais il fait nuit, l’orage gronde, ils sont distraits et prennent la mauvaise direction, enfonçant leur énorme VR dans un étroit chemin forestier qui les mènera vers l’horreur.

Dans ce roman au suspense haletant, Andrée A. Michaud déploie tout son talent afin de nous faire ressentir l’effroi de cette famille que le hasard entraîne dans une spirale sans fin.

Baignades

Proies

N. Scott Momaday

Joséphine Bacon

Louis Hamelin

Jean Désy

Yves Boisvert

Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui

Denise Brassard

Jean Sioui

Laure Morali

Jean Morisset

Rita Mestokosho

José Acquelin

Anne-Marie Saint-Onge André

Nahka Bertrand

Domingo Cisneros

Alain Connolly

Jean Duval

Violaine Forest

Jean-Pierre Girard

Lison Mestokosho

Joan Pawnee Parent

Annie Perrault

jean-Claude Piétacho

Roméo Saganash

Robert Seven-Crows

Guy Sioui Durand

Yves Sioui Durand

Isabelle Miron

Aimititau ! Parlons nous ! réunit pour la première fois des auteurs du Québec et des Premières Nations, à travers des correspondances inédites qui prennent la forme de lettres, de récits, de courriels, de poèmes et de contes. Vingt-neuf auteurs, confirmés et jeunes, sont rassemblés ici par le désir de mieux se connaître. Ils initient le dialogue et rompent les solitudes. Les écrivains jumelés s’écrivent des mois durant jusqu’à faire surgir une œuvre faite de tendresse et d’inquiétude, de révolte et d’espoir. Les grandes et incontournables questions humaines reviennent d’une correspondance une autre. Aimititau! Parlons-nous! donne à lire une multitude de voix et de points de vue, qui expriment la manière d’être ensemble, d’habiter la même terre et de vivre dans le respect de l’autre. Véritable action de solidarité. Résonances d’une lettre à une autre, d’un tourment à un autre, d’une joie à une autre, pour se rejoindre dans la fraternité des mots.

Aimititau! Parlons-nous!

In the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, drinking and smoking and swearing, attracting the attention of boys and men. First one, and then the other, goes missing, and both are eventually found dead in the forest. Have they been the victims of freak accidents? Or is someone hunting the young women of Boundary? And if there is a hunter, who might be next? The Summer of Love quickly becomes the Summer of Fear, and detective Stan Michaud, already haunted by a case he could not solve, is determined to find out what exactly is happening in Boundary before someone else is found dead. A story of deep psychological power and unbearable suspense, Andrée A. Michaud’s award-winning Boundary is an utterly gripping read about a community divided by suspicion and driven together by primal terror.

The Last Summer

Boundary

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Le ravissement

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death. Retired fifty-something Robert Moreau flees a society he can no longer bear for Mirror Lake, Maine. Little does he suspect that an intrusive neighbour and a mysterious death will quickly dispel any illusions he may have had about finding sanctuary in isolation. The misanthropic Moreau quickly learns that his Thoreau-like vision is a fiction. And as in all fiction, nothing, not even Moreau’s own identity, is certain — except, perhaps, the friendship of his loyal dog, Jeff. In this tragicomic novel of the confusion between the fabular and the real, brilliantly rooted in the forested Quebec-Maine landscape, Moreau is compelled to look deep in Mirror Lake’s shimmering waters and into the eyes of the man he is, was, and could be. Winner of the Prix Ringuet and adapted into a feature film, Mirror Lake is a masterpiece of Michaud’s canon, a playfully genre-mixing psycho-thriller that explores our mysterious existence and the bottomless self.

Mirror Lake

In Scotiabank Giller Prize-longlisted author Andrée A. Michaud's genre-defying, ethereal mystery, a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime -- and her own identity. In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author's own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her own name not in fact Heather Thorne? Brimming with the snowy menace and mystery of the boreal woods, where nothing is ever entirely known, the celebrated and prize-winning Quebec noir novelist Andrée A. Michaud once again defies categorization in an ethereal story that is also a meditation on the very process of literary creation.

Back Roads

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man's search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death. Retired fifty-something Robert Moreau flees a society he can no longer bear for Mirror Lake, Maine. Little does he suspect that an intrusive neighbour and a mysterious death will quickly dispel any illusions he may have had about finding sanctuary in isolation. The misanthropic Moreau quickly learns that his Thoreau-like vision is a fiction. And as in all fiction, nothing, not even Moreau's own identity, is certain -- except, perhaps, the friendship of his loyal dog, Jeff. In this tragicomic novel of the confusion between the fabular and the real, brilliantly rooted in the forested Maine landscape, Moreau is compelled to look deep in Mirror Lake's shimmering waters and into the eyes of the man he is, was, and could be. Winner of the Prix Ringuet and adapted into a feature film, Mirror Lake is a masterpiece of Michaud's canon, a playfully genre-mixing psycho-thriller that explores our mysterious existence and the bottomless self.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014 Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs for Best French Crime Novel at the Quais du Polar 2017 Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel 2014 Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017 A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary Pond, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air. Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blonde Lolitas. Life seems idyllic. But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over... 'Brilliantly innovative in narrative and thrillingly readable, this is a splendid novel that makes high literature out of crime and suspense' - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 'While it has an element of the whodunit, this lushly written, award-winning francophone novel is literary crime-writing in which the texture of period and place takes priority' - John Dugdale, Sunday Times 'This book is incredible... a perfectly pitched slow-burn thriller' - Sam Baker, The Pool Previously published in the UK as BOUNDARY

L'ultima estate

Die Sonne brennt über Boundary Pond, dem traumhaften Urlaubsparadies an der kanadisch-amerikanischen Grenze. Doch als Zaza Mulligan und Sissy Morgen, beste Freundinnen und zwei blonde Lolitas, nacheinander im tiefen Wald verschwinden, beginnen sich Wolken über dem Paradies am See zusammenzubrauen. Die Dunkelheit erfasst die Idylle von Boundary Pond ... Wer könnte es auf die Mädchen abgesehen haben? Und vor allem, warum?

Thriller

Die Vermissten aus Boundary Pond

"À 40 ans et sans avenir, Charles Wilson retourne sur les lieux de son enfance dans la petite localité de Trempes. Ainsi s'amorce pour lui un formidable retour en arrière où les secrets les mieux enfouis refont surface. Exhumer le passé n'est pas chose facile. Les souvenirs pourraient se trouver altérés du simple fait que les acteurs d'autrefois ne soient pas au rendez-vous. Qu'est-il advenu de Paul Faber et d'Anna Dickson, les amis d'enfance? Et Joseph Lahaie, l'empailleur chez qui Charles trouve refuge, pourra-t-il percer le mystère vieux de 25 ans?"--Éditeur.

Le Pendu de Trempes

1967. A Bondrée, affascinante località di villeggiatura sul confine tra Stati Uniti e Québec, la Summer of Love sembra un’estate come un’altra. Il campeggio sul lago è stracolmo di turisti americani, i cottage al limitare del bosco ospitano famiglie festanti e allegri barbecue, i residenti canadesi si mescolano ai vacanzieri. L’idillio si rompe dopo che Zaza Mulligan, diciassettenne americana dai capelli rossi, le lunghe gambe abbronzate e il sorriso facile, viene ritrovata senza vita tra gli alberi. Sembra che a ucciderla sia stata una tagliola per orsi. Ma quando anche la sua amica Sissy Morgan, bionda lolita che insieme a Zaza turbava le notti di tutti gli uomini di Bondrée, muore in circostanze misteriose, la paura, il sospetto e il senso di colpa si diffondono nel villaggio. Le indagini vengono affidate all’ispettore capo Stan Michaud e al suo vice Jim Cusack, accompagnati dall’interprete Brian Larue: all’inedito terzetto spetterà il compito di interpretare i minacciosi silenzi degli abitanti francofoni e di provare ad allentare le tensioni tra americani e canadesi che la morte delle due adolescenti porta alla luce. Tensioni che affondano le proprie radici nella storia del luogo e nell’amore disperato tra un cacciatore solitario e una donna sfortunata. Sarà lo sguardo di una bambina ad aiutare gli inquirenti a osservare la realtà da una prospettiva diversa, diradando le nebbie che avvolgono segreti e bugie di una comunità costretta a fare i conti con un male inconfessabile.

When Charles Wilson flees his dead-end life for Trempes, the first thing he finds is the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Obsessed with uncovering the story behind Faber's death, Wilson learns that truth and time aren't always what they appear to be, and he is soon caught up in a delusory spiral that threatens his very existence. At once a neo-Gothic metaphysical thriller and a meditative fairy tale, The River of Dead Trees charts a dizzying descent into the fragility of faith and of memory.

The River of Dead Trees

Andrée A. Michaud

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