As the third volume of the Sarah Geringën saga, The Devil’s Island, is released, Nice Premium revisits Conspiracy, the previous thriller by Nicolas Beuglet.
In this second book, Nicolas Beuglet brings back his duo comprising Sarah Geringën, a Norwegian inspector, and Christopher Clarence, a French reporter. The couple has settled in Norway with Simon, Christopher’s orphaned nephew. But one day, Sarah is spectacularly requisitioned by her government to travel to a completely isolated archipelago in northern Norway, at the Russian border, to investigate a peculiar murder.
Peculiar because the staging is strange and the victim is the Norwegian prime minister…
An investigation full of stakes for Sarah, who will have to prove herself as the killer always seems to be one step ahead of her.
Conspiracy is an ambitious novel because beyond its purely thriller aspect, the central question is the place of women in our world. As the author states at the end, his book was written three years before the Weinstein affair, so he did not “take advantage” of this case to ride a wave of feminism. This thriller will make you take another look at men and women. Much of the theories or revelations in Conspiracy are supported by historical evidence.
This thriller, driven at breakneck speed by the author, possesses, like his previous novel The Cry, an undeniable cinematic quality, and the narrative will take you from Norway to Lebanon.
Complex, breathless, disturbing, Conspiracy is undoubtedly a success, wonderfully combining entertainment and reflection on our society.
As for the ending, it will surprise more than one reader and leave you wanting to read the third volume of the Geringën saga, The Devil’s Island, published in September by XO editions and soon to be reviewed on our site.
