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This granddaughter of a resistance fighter from Aubagne, who came to thriller through intimate, family wounds, sows corpses on the island of the “Red Banker”.
From our special correspondent Julie Malaure
Hit. Since the publication of her first novel, “Block 46”, in 2016, Johana Gustawsson has become the French queen of thrillers, translated in 23 countries.
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VSe will not be the first brunette crossed in Sweden. Nor the first thriller author to meet with phenomenal success there, with rights sold in 23 countries and a television adaptation in progress. On the other hand, it will be the only one to welcome you to the shores of the Baltic with a Marseille accent.
Johana Gustawsson only speaks Swedish for her husband’s surname and his postal address on the island of Lidingö, a quarter of an hour from downtown Stockholm. With her cascading brown hair tossed over an ivory coat, a blunt verb and an unmistakable accent – “I put “e” everywhere, it looks like Fernandel’s granddaughter! -, this Southerner, as improbable as a cicada on the Mer de Glace, managed, in her latest book, to hide a lot of corpses – exclusively violent deaths…
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