At the opening of the Dissay thriller fair, this Saturday, September 24, several authors were missing. Disturbing disappearances? A quick investigation made it possible to identify the culprit: the resumption of the Covid epidemic got the better of the most voluntary, to the chagrin of the winner of the Noir Dissay Readers’ Prize, Sandrine Cohen, nailed to her bed, in Paris.
Dedications and anecdotes
In the middle of the followingnoon, the author of Rosin nevertheless took the time to respond to the call from the mayor of Dissay, Michel François, and the head of the town’s media library, Emmanuel Biré. The writer was delighted that her novel was acclaimed by the 128 or so readers making up the jury and registered in the fifteen or so participating Grand Poitiers media libraries. Another animation planned a little earlier in the week had to be canceled due to Covid: the concert drawn on Thursday evening did not survive it. By contrast, Wednesday’s roundtable, with four experts in criminal research and forensics, drew nearly 140 people. And the meeting with Thibaut Solano, author of Drowned Clainwas also a great success on Friday evening.
This Saturday, it’s the thriller show that closed this week of festival. The sixteen authors present all complied with the exercise of dedications. In this game, Michel Sapanet was not the least in demand: the famous medical examiner chained the signatures by sprinkling them with a few bleeding anecdotes. And the brothers Alain and Jean-Paul Bouchon were happy to tell how they write their novels with four hands.
Board games with riddles and fun workshops on scientific police, offered by Espace Mendès-France, were also full. To the delight of the 200 visitors to the show.
