People Like Them
by Samira Sedira
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Penguin Books
Published on 7/6/2021
Des gens comme eux
was first published in French in 2020
192 pages
Suspense/Thriller/Literary fiction
Goodreads
As Covid related restrictions loosen up, many tourists are going to head for France, and for good reasons, as it’s a wonderful place to visit for a few days or a few weeks, with great landscape, delicious food, and tasty wine. However, daily life for a lot of French people is far from the rosy glimpses caught by the average tourist. Several recent novels, like Summer of Reckoning, by Marion Brunet, have even shown how dark it can get.
This is definitely the case with People Like Them, as Samira Sedira bases her story on a tragedy that happened in 2003, with a quintuple murder.
VERDICT: With a solid social background, this French thriller offers a study on human nature. When normal people we know commit terrible crimes, are we totally innocent ourselves?
Please go to Criminal Element to read my full review.
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Emma,
Très bonne recension dans Criminal Element ! Bravo !
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Merci Ellen
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Just your review and enjoyed that extract of the conversation in the cafe, especially the comment about people who think it’s a holiday to go walking in the hot sun! My husband and I did that in the Burgundy region one year, unfortunately timing our trip with a heatwave. By the end we agreed that walking in vineyards was not much more fun than walking in a field of potato crops
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Funny!!
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Interesting review. It seems odd that racism was never considered as a factor in the real trial.
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I know, I was quite shocked by that too
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