Frédérique Molay
Autore di The 7th Woman
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Frédérique Molay is the author of the international bestseller The 7th Woman. She graduated from France's prestigious Science Po and began her career in politics and the French administration. Molay worked as Chief of Staff for the Deputy Mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and then was elected to mostra altro the local government in Saône-et-Loire. Meanwhile, she spent her nights pursuing a passion for writing. After The 7th Woman took France by storm, Frédérique Molay dedicated her life to writing and raising her three children. She has five books to her name, with three in the Chief Inspector Nico Sirsky series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Molay, Frédérique
- Data di nascita
- 1968
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Paris, France
Chalon-sur-Saône, France - Istruzione
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
- Attività lavorative
- politician
novelist
crime novelist
detective novelist - Organizzazioni
- Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin
- Breve biografia
- Frédérique Molay was born in Paris and started writing at about age 11. She graduated from the prestigious Institut d'Études Politique ("Sciences Po") and holds a master's degree in Business Administration. She began her political career as the chief of staff for a commission of the French National Assembly. She then worked for local government in Burgundy, ran for office in the European elections, and was elected in Saône-et-Loire. She was also writing crime novels, and her first published book La 7ème femme (The 7th Woman, 2007) won France's prestigious Prix du Quai des Orfèvres for best crime novel. The 7th Woman took France by storm and went on to become an international bestseller. She took a break from politics to write Dent pour Dent (Crossing the Line, 2011) and Déjeuner sous l'herbs (City of Blood, 2012), two more titles in the Paris Homicide series featuring Chief Inspector Nico Sirsky. She also taught French in middle school for a short time, sharing her passion for writing with young teens. In June 2015, while writing her most recent Paris Homicide novel, Looking to the Woods (2016), she returned to politics as the chief of staff for a newly-elected French senator. She now splits her time between Paris and Chalon-sur-Saône. She is a knight in the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, an order of wine lovers who promote Burgundy wines.
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(París homicida 01) La séptima mujer di Frédérique Molay
En el legendario Quai de Orfèvres, sede de la Policía Judicial de París, el comisario Nico Sirksy sufre más estrés del que su estómago puede aguantar. De vuelta en una visita a la atractiva doctora Carolina Dairy, le informan de un macabro asesinato ocurrido ese mismo día, un lunes. La víctima, una profesora de historia, ha sido hallada muerta y atrozmente mutilada. Al día siguiente, la policía encuentra el cadáver de otra mujer, muerta en circunstancias similares. En el espejo del cuarto de baño, el asesino ha dejado escrito con sangre: Siete días, siete mujeres... Comienza entonces una trepidante carrera contrarreloj.… (altro)
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
Twenty-seven years after burying the leftovers of a banquet in an art project, the place is excavated, but together with the leftovers a body is found. Who is the dead person and who killed him?
The hardest thing for me with this book was keeping track of all the people, there were a lot of names and I don't know if it was because they were French or just so many that made my brain go "who was he again?", but at least, in the end, I think I had gotten most of the names under control. The worst thing is reading a crime novel and when the culprit is revealed you just go " who was he again?" That did at least not happened with this book.
The story was quite straightforward, no big surprises, not a lot of red herrings. Someone was dead. Everyone was quite sure of whom it was more people dead and it was quite logical that the body buried 30 years earlier had something to do with present day's murder.
One thing that I found unusual with the book was that everyone was so nice; I mean among the cops, usually, the lead cop is a real bastard or some other cop is a bastard. But everyone was genuinely nice. That was quite odd to read. This is the first crime novel I read that takes place in France so I don't know it is typical or if the author just wanted to portray everyone in that way. Anyway, that was a nice change to all the moody cops I usually read about.
Another thing that I thought about while reading the book was the cops quite relaxed attitude to the gay community. I mean two of the cops went to a gay bar to question witnesses and there were none of the usual attitudes towards homosexuality. I don't know if all the American/British/Swedish crime novels I have read have made me used to more eh harsh attitude towards homosexuals or something. But it was really nice to have cops just so at ease with it.
Anyway. I liked the book, the story wasn't that complex, but I liked the characters. I mean the main character Nico Sirsky, mentioned in the book Star Trek (a milieu looked like a scene from Star Trek), and had a Queen ringtone (Another One Bites the Dust). He cares very much for his mother who had to be taken to the hospital after collapsing and worried about her while hunting a killer. I wish he was for real!
3.5 stars
Thank you Le French Book for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!… (altro)
The hardest thing for me with this book was keeping track of all the people, there were a lot of names and I don't know if it was because they were French or just so many that made my brain go "who was he again?", but at least, in the end, I think I had gotten most of the names under control. The worst thing is reading a crime novel and when the culprit is revealed you just go " who was he again?" That did at least not happened with this book.
The story was quite straightforward, no big surprises, not a lot of red herrings. Someone was dead. Everyone was quite sure of whom it was more people dead and it was quite logical that the body buried 30 years earlier had something to do with present day's murder.
One thing that I found unusual with the book was that everyone was so nice; I mean among the cops, usually, the lead cop is a real bastard or some other cop is a bastard. But everyone was genuinely nice. That was quite odd to read. This is the first crime novel I read that takes place in France so I don't know it is typical or if the author just wanted to portray everyone in that way. Anyway, that was a nice change to all the moody cops I usually read about.
Another thing that I thought about while reading the book was the cops quite relaxed attitude to the gay community. I mean two of the cops went to a gay bar to question witnesses and there were none of the usual attitudes towards homosexuality. I don't know if all the American/British/Swedish crime novels I have read have made me used to more eh harsh attitude towards homosexuals or something. But it was really nice to have cops just so at ease with it.
Anyway. I liked the book, the story wasn't that complex, but I liked the characters. I mean the main character Nico Sirsky, mentioned in the book Star Trek (a milieu looked like a scene from Star Trek), and had a Queen ringtone (Another One Bites the Dust). He cares very much for his mother who had to be taken to the hospital after collapsing and worried about her while hunting a killer. I wish he was for real!
3.5 stars
Thank you Le French Book for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!… (altro)
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.
My Review: You know what you're in for with the Molay procedurals: Action. You're going to get action from the start and Sirsky, in charge of his usual posse of law-enforcers, is about to enter a world that scares many more than it beguiles: Fine Art. Avant garde fine art. Of the twentieth century...art that makes anti-capitalist and anti-waste statements.
See why I wanted to review this now, at this juncture?
Much more stress for poor Nico comes from his mother, a woman...barely more than a girl!...of sixty-five. There is nothing easy about parents growing older, and Nico Sirsky the cop knows it well. He is on the receiving end of news he usually needs to break..."we have unfortunate news about your mother"...at the same time that he and his team solve a decades-old disappearance that brought life to a halt for another mother.
It seems that the supply of sexual violence in Paris was reasonably well-capped until the Cassian exhumation. Suddenly there's so much more happening, and in the cruisy Parc de La Villette, with unknown perp(s) making their awful desires manifest in reducing young gay men to bloodless meat.
What winds through this entire book, and through all three Molay stories that I have read, is a sense of the inviolability of two things: Love and Hate. Every crime is deeply seeded with both of these things, and every time Nico and his team work on a case, it is clear that each of them has been imbued with Nico's so-Slavic sense of the duality of the world as represented by this pairing. The future is not guaranteed, not to anyone, and those who seek a guarantee before committing themselves to Life are always, always left with regrets and unhappiness.
This according exactly with my own life's course, I've got no kick with it. And the ways in which Auteure Molay makes these bones dance is always a pleasure. One of the additional joys of this story is the simple, direct path that Nico unhesitatingly follows to solve a thirty-year-old crime, one that ended more than one life. And will now end others, as there is fallout from any act of Hate committed in this world. A large thread of Nico's life is his love of his family, and his resultant willingness to put himself in the shoes of anyone who needs his professional services. It is a pleasure to read about such a fine character...as one of the bereaved says to Nico, towards the end of the story, "Maigret can sleep well, you are a worthy successor to him."
We do spend some time in the peculiarly placed gay hookup world, a thing I wouldn't've expected La Molay to give so much space to. It's not played for comedy, it's not presented as Abnormal; it's a reality, it's where the crimes committed have led; therefore, thence goes (tall, blond, blue-eyed hunk) Nico. It fails to shock me that he ends up on a gay club's dance floor....
I was a bit more shocked that Nico sought out a Russian Orthodox priest to, I suppose confide in...? He's pretty resolutely a materialist. Still and all, it was worked into the story as well as such a thing could possibly be. The artists of the 1980s and the hothouse world of Fine Art is a significant character in the tales. It isn't *explored* per se, but its limits and its passions are very much part of the reason for the crimes that are experienced in this compact, intense read.
I encourage thriller readers to check out all three of these Paris Homicide series reads. Rev up the translation-reading you do painlessly, pleasurably, and with added thrills.… (altro)
My Review: You know what you're in for with the Molay procedurals: Action. You're going to get action from the start and Sirsky, in charge of his usual posse of law-enforcers, is about to enter a world that scares many more than it beguiles: Fine Art. Avant garde fine art. Of the twentieth century...art that makes anti-capitalist and anti-waste statements.
See why I wanted to review this now, at this juncture?
Much more stress for poor Nico comes from his mother, a woman...barely more than a girl!...of sixty-five. There is nothing easy about parents growing older, and Nico Sirsky the cop knows it well. He is on the receiving end of news he usually needs to break..."we have unfortunate news about your mother"...at the same time that he and his team solve a decades-old disappearance that brought life to a halt for another mother.
It seems that the supply of sexual violence in Paris was reasonably well-capped until the Cassian exhumation. Suddenly there's so much more happening, and in the cruisy Parc de La Villette, with unknown perp(s) making their awful desires manifest in reducing young gay men to bloodless meat.
What winds through this entire book, and through all three Molay stories that I have read, is a sense of the inviolability of two things: Love and Hate. Every crime is deeply seeded with both of these things, and every time Nico and his team work on a case, it is clear that each of them has been imbued with Nico's so-Slavic sense of the duality of the world as represented by this pairing. The future is not guaranteed, not to anyone, and those who seek a guarantee before committing themselves to Life are always, always left with regrets and unhappiness.
This according exactly with my own life's course, I've got no kick with it. And the ways in which Auteure Molay makes these bones dance is always a pleasure. One of the additional joys of this story is the simple, direct path that Nico unhesitatingly follows to solve a thirty-year-old crime, one that ended more than one life. And will now end others, as there is fallout from any act of Hate committed in this world. A large thread of Nico's life is his love of his family, and his resultant willingness to put himself in the shoes of anyone who needs his professional services. It is a pleasure to read about such a fine character...as one of the bereaved says to Nico, towards the end of the story, "Maigret can sleep well, you are a worthy successor to him."
We do spend some time in the peculiarly placed gay hookup world, a thing I wouldn't've expected La Molay to give so much space to. It's not played for comedy, it's not presented as Abnormal; it's a reality, it's where the crimes committed have led; therefore, thence goes (tall, blond, blue-eyed hunk) Nico. It fails to shock me that he ends up on a gay club's dance floor....
I was a bit more shocked that Nico sought out a Russian Orthodox priest to, I suppose confide in...? He's pretty resolutely a materialist. Still and all, it was worked into the story as well as such a thing could possibly be. The artists of the 1980s and the hothouse world of Fine Art is a significant character in the tales. It isn't *explored* per se, but its limits and its passions are very much part of the reason for the crimes that are experienced in this compact, intense read.
I encourage thriller readers to check out all three of these Paris Homicide series reads. Rev up the translation-reading you do painlessly, pleasurably, and with added thrills.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 15
- Utenti
- 176
- Popolarità
- #121,982
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 43
- ISBN
- 26
- Lingue
- 4