Thriller and Detective Novel Book Club

ANOTHER BOOK CLUB?

This is not a typical book club.
Here, we are not going to talk about great literature or literary devices.

The goal is to gather around a good thriller or detective novel to make it easier to speak French.

Is this for me?

This course is for you if:

You enjoy this kind of literature.
You have at least an intermediate level.
You want to learn more vocabulary.
You want to improve your speaking skills.

WHY A THRILLER AND DETECTIVE NOVEL BOOK CLUB?

It’s an excellent starting point to spark curiosity.

The common goal of the group is to solve a mystery, understand the characters, while enjoying the process.

The goal: to learn vocabulary, and be able to express yourself orally with a French teacher who will guide you

How does it work?

Each session lasts 1 hour on Zoom.

You will be between 3 and 5 students maximum.

Before each session, your teacher Amélie will give you a certain number of chapters to read (about 70 pages per
session) and she will sent youthe difficult vocabulary words in advance .

No reading all at once, or you’ll find out the ending too quickly

NEXT BOOK

For her thirtieth novel, France Lorrain delivers a captivating first crime thriller!
At Virevent Elementary School in Saint-Émile, the arrival of a new principal raises hopes for a pleasant school year.
However, one Monday morning in December, a teacher is found dead in her classroom, with a pair of scissors plunged into her chest.

Detectives Lieutenant Vinh Park and Lieutenant Jérôme Marquis are assigned to solve the murder. Amid hostile colleagues and parents determined to have her dismissed, who could have harbored such intense hatred toward this teacher, who was controversial because of her treatment of her students?

Both unsettling and utterly addictive, this novel marks the author’s highly successful debut in crime fiction.