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Estelle
Monbrun
GOOD TO KNOW
Estelle Monbrun is a French professor teaching Literature at
Washington University (Missouri). She is an acknowledged
Proust and Yourcenar specialist.
She writes Crime novels which give an insight in Literature.
A ll her novels are carefully documented and read
wonderfully well.
Murder at
Isla Negra
Suspense novel, 224 pages - 2006
After Proust, Yourcenar and Colette, Estelle Monbrun once again gets inspiration
from a writer’s universe to write a detective novel over an historical backdrop :
Spanish political refugees who arrived in France after the fall of Barcelona in 1939
and were dumped in camps, while Neruda chartered a boat, the Winnipeg, helping
them to get back to Chili.
On this island, la villa Pablo Neruda, « built as a P on a promontory overlooking the house of Chili’s most famous
poet », welcomes artists of all kinds. One morning, Maria Loncomilla, the unhappy chambermaid, is forced to
confront the formidable Villa director to inform her of the disappearance of Celia Martin, one of the guests…
Press review :
« Like tasting fine jam, one takes a delectable
pleasure in following this story in which all the
complex and fragile characters, speaking in their
own voice, each seem to want to catch the attention of
the reader.
The narrator, diabolically skillful, quite talented
in exploring souls and decrypting the twists and
turns of history, builds a real suspenseful thriller
tinged with a keen irony for the environment
she describes and a true tenderness for others.
We warmly recommend this novel as well as all her
previous works (…). »
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