With winds of ashes, Sandrine Collette ranks among the large feathers of the French thriller!

After the critical and public success of his first novel The steel nodes, which is more devoted by the Grand Prize for Literature Police, needless to say Sandrine Collette was expected at the turn.
But if I had not been personally totally convinced by his first novel which was fishing in my opinion by some minor defects, I admit that I was impressed by winds of ash and its absolute mastery. Where The steel nodes were a little frustrated by not really leaving me vivid memory, A wind of ashes will be able to give me some numbers of images and thrills.
Admittedly Sandrine Collette strikes hard here from the first pages, with a prologue that really works, also hitting ably placed in the narrative, which he will also better interpret the outcome.
Subsequently, Sandrine Collette plunges us into a kind of dark and highly venomous version of Beauty and the Beast, revealing an undeniable talent to create and play with atmospheres, alternating moods, sometimes blowing hot and cold.
The natural environment in which unfolds the plot is perfectly rendered, vineyards fields in the forest that surrounds them, to the large, elegant house of the owners who live recluse, injured or even to the edge of madness for a. Human feelings will seem exacerbated, the attraction between Octavian and Camille born with a skin-deep sensuality Malo anger at what he perceives as reconciliation unhealthy.
With an evocative writing and style that has matured, Sandrine Collette captivates the reader in this kind of tale revisited when the growing tension explodes in the final chapters, an epilogue to an infinite darkness that closes this beautiful thriller with a second slap to the reader. Awesome!