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    Never Forget: A Victor Lessard Thriller
    Never Forget: A Victor Lessard Thriller
    Never Forget: A Victor Lessard Thriller
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    Never Forget: A Victor Lessard Thriller

    By Martin Michaud

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    Tormented, rebellious police detective Victor Lessard races to track down a ruthless killer in Montreal.

    “Martin Michaud is a master at twisty storytelling and compelling atmosphere.” — Catherine McKenzie

    “Never Forget is a crackerjack read.” — Quill & Quire

    “A raucous crime thriller.” — Publishers Weekly

    When a homeless man jumps to his death in Old Montreal, the police discover two wallets in his possession: one belonging to a retired psychiatrist who was murdered in a bizarre ritual, the other to a powerful corporate lawyer who has vanished. As Montreal police detective Victor Lessard and his partner, Jacinthe Taillon, work to solve the separate mysteries, a dark conspiracy begins to emerge.

    While the pressure builds and the bodies accumulate, disturbing secrets come to light about a pivotal moment in political history. But will Lessard and Taillon crack the case in time to stop the killer from striking again?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateJan 18, 2020
    ISBN9781459742741
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    Martin Michaud

    Martin Michaud is a bestselling author, screenwriter, musician, and former lawyer. His critically acclaimed Victor Lessard series has won numerous awards, including the CWC Award of Excellence and the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Crime Fiction, and is the basis for the award-winning French-language TV series Victor Lessard. He lives in the woods, an hour away from Montreal.

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    • 5/5
      2020My Recommendation Never Forget by Martin Michaud is the third in the Detective Victor Lessard series, however this novel is the first to be translated from French into English and I have no doubt the previous ones will soon follow. The author is also the screenwriter for the very successful television series based on these novels. Detective Victor Lessard and his quirky partner Jacinthe Taillon have been assigned to the suicide of a homeless man who, at the time of his demise, had in his possession two wallets: one belonging to a tortured murder victim and one belonging to a missing person. As the detectives investigate, the body count goes up. The puzzle is baffling for all involved and the police may need to go back in time, as far as the 1960s, to solve it. If you enjoy Scandinavian noir fiction and psychological thrillers, this mystery is for you. Highly recommended. Thank you to Dundurn Press and NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      Compelling Quebec thriller!A gritty murder mystery that segues into the bizarre. Set in Montriel, a detective and his partner are confronted by a series of grotesque murders that have a dark history.I reveled in this thriller. Devastating Quebecian crime noi! Always that cutting edge that is present in many of the movie and literary contributions from this part of the world.I loved Victor Lessard a detective sergeant with the Major Crimes Unit of the Montreal Police. Victor is introspective, taciturn and a recovering alcoholic, taking copious amounts of anti anxiety pills, who has returned to the major crimes unit after having left in disgrace. He has a hair trigger temper when aroused. Jacinthe Taillon is his gung-ho, take no prisoners partner. She's dynamite and totally not PC. Together they are a seemingly ill matched yet superb duo.When the murders lead to past CIA experiments in mind control and questions are raised about JFK's assassination in relation to these experiments, the story enters the twilight zone of political theories and deniability.This is the first Victor Lessard novel to be translated into English. I look forward to more.A most satisfying read!A Dundurn Press ARC via NetGalley
    • 2/5
      When the elderly man climbed 48 flights of steps, I knew I was going to have trouble with the translation. I read on till about 10% and could not figure out what was going on. Quit.I received a review copy of " Never Forget" by Martin Michaud from Dundurn Press through NetGalley.com.
    • 3/5
      Martin Michaud tries too hard and accomplishes too little in this police thriller. It’s disappointing because I wanted to enjoy it. It’s set in Montreal and evokes many details of the city in a realistic way. It touches on contemporary issues, such as the corrosive effects of the repression of the Quebec independentist movement, political corruption and continuing interference by the RCMP. It even has an insider’s view of realistic police work. I would have been happy if it had handled any of these with reasonably plausible characters. Instead, Michaud tries to hook readers with tortuous murders depicted from the victim’s point of view, and bizarre plot points like the bow and arrow shooting in a Montreal cemetery or the CIA’s brainwashing experiments carried out in Montreal in order to avoid legal scrutiny. This is catchy plotting that draws the action from high point to high point, as if following the advice in a manual for successful detective thrillers, but it feels artificial and manipulative.Worse, Michaud creates thinly drawn characters who over-react to everything in their lives. With characters of greater depth, I might have been drawn into the rest of the story, which has its intrigue. But it seems that each of the central characters has one quirk that becomes a defining feature. The lead detective is dealing (badly) with a fatal error from his past and its repercussions in his personal and professional life. His partner is a junk food junkie. Another detective is gnomic while the chief is supportive as he struggles with his wife’s cancer. These could be colourful details if there were more to the characters, but there isn’t. The characters are uniformly flat cartoons.Apparently, Michaud is a popular writer in Quebec and perhaps his characters have more depth in their original language. I can imagine that they may well have lost something in translation, particularly as a lot of the characterization comes from the dialogue. The plot conforms to the genre conventions, and Michaud has won fiction awards in both French and English. So perhaps I’d concede that personal taste is a factor here – except that those characters (in translation) just don’t have the substance of, say, a well-crafted English police drama. (Is it fair to compare a translated novel to a well written English drama? Perhaps not.)Maybe I just don’t appreciate the modern detective genre, but it seems to me that the mid-century novels of Phillip Marlow or Dashiell Hammett are just better written, even with their exaggerated language and convoluted plots. And the genre fiction of John Le Carré never leaves me thinking that the characters are flat cartoons, even when they are predictable types from his repertoire. Ultimately, I’m just not drawn to spend any more time with Michaud’s characters, even if there are aspects of his novels that are intriguing.

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