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La Daronne

By: Hannelore Cayre
Narrated by: Isabelle Botton
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"Alors que j'entamais ma nouvelle carrière, Philippe, mon fiancé flic, prenait son poste comme commandant aux stups de la 2e DPJ. - Comme ça on se verra plus souvent, m'a-t-il dit, réjoui, en m'annonçant la nouvelle deux mois auparavant, le jour de sa nomination. J'étais vraiment contente pour lui, mais à cette époque je n'étais qu'une simple traductrice-interprète judiciaire et je n'avais pas encore une tonne deux de shit dans ma cave."

Comment, lorsqu'on est une femme seule, travailleuse avec une vision morale de l'existence... qu'on a trimé toute sa vie pour garder la tête hors de l'eau... qu'on a servi la justice sans faillir, traduisant des milliers d'heures d'écoutes téléphoniques avec un statut de travailleur au noir... on en arrive à franchir la ligne jaune ? Rien de plus simple, on détourne une montagne de cannabis d'un Go Fast et on le fait l'âme légère, en ne ressentant ni culpabilité ni effroi, mais plutôt... disons... un détachement joyeux. Et on devient la Daronne.

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Prix Le Point du polar européen 2017, Grand Prix de littérature policière 2017, Prix des lecteurs du festival de polar de Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Palmarès Lire des vingt meilleurs livres de l'année 2017.

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A dark France

The world of petty criminals and big drug dealers. Patience Portefeux is a translator for Arabic speaking people appearing in court in Paris, later of tapped phones. Her personal life has been marked by tragedy; her husband died suddenly after a few years of marriage, leaving her penniless with two wee daughters. Her father, a pied-noir is a crook, and her mother a Viennese Jew who was incarcerated by the Nazis and has withdrawn from life, and is now a financial burden, growing progressively more demented in a seedy care home. Somehow Patience becomes drawn into the world of drug trafficking to become « La Daronne » - the godmother. A milieu of which I knew nothing,(from literature) at least when France is concerned. Intriguing.

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