Hannelore Cayre has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 2★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Godmother.
The Godmother
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A taut and darkly funny account of an unusual woman and her voyage into the underground ecosystem of crime and justice in contemporary France. Meet Patience Portefeux, 53, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. She’s laboured for 25 years to keep everyone’s heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in - and infiltrating - the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes The Godmother’ This is not life in the French idyll of postcards and stock photos. With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians who are more real than life itself, a sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayre’s best-selling novel shines a torchlight on a European criminal underground that has rarely been seen.
©2019 Hannelore Cayre (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing
La Daronne
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"Alors que j'entamais ma nouvelle carrière, Philippe, mon fiancé flic, prenait son poste comme commandant aux stups de la 2e DPJ. - Comme ça on se verra plus souvent, m'a-t-il dit, réjoui, en m'annonçant la nouvelle deux mois auparavant, le jour de sa nomination. J'étais vraiment contente pour lui, mais à cette époque je n'étais qu'une simple traductrice-interprète judiciaire et je n'avais pas encore une tonne deux de shit dans ma cave." Comment, lorsqu'on est une femme seule, travailleuse avec une vision morale de l'existence... qu'on a trimé toute sa vie pour garder la tête hors de l'eau... qu'on a servi la justice sans faillir, traduisant des milliers d'heures d'écoutes téléphoniques avec un statut de travailleur au noir... on en arrive à franchir la ligne jaune ? Rien de plus simple, on détourne une montagne de cannabis d'un Go Fast et on le fait l'âme légère, en ne ressentant ni culpabilité ni effroi, mais plutôt... disons... un détachement joyeux. Et on devient la Daronne.
©2017 Éditions Métailié (P)2018 Audiolib
Commis d'office
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Christophe Leibovitz-Berthier est avocat pénaliste et traîne son âme en peine de commissions d'office en dossiers minables. Déçu par son milieu professionnel, il accepte de collaborer avec un avocat sulfureux qui défend des gros truands. Mais cette collaboration fera de lui le compagnon de cellule d'un proxénète albanais... amateur de Flaubert. Une histoire d'hommes écrite par une auteure politiquement incorrecte et un portrait hilarant de la scène judiciaire. Suivi d'un entretien exclusif avec l'auteure.
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The Inheritors
Summary
In her trademark razor-sharp style, Hannelore Cayre again delivers the sardonic humour and devilish creativity that made The Godmother an international best seller. She had been dead now for four days and I had become rich. Unimaginably rich. Blanche de Rigny has always considered herself the black sheep of the family. And a black sheep on crutches at that. But it turns out her family tree has branches she didn’t even know existed. And many of them are rotten to the core. As Blanche learns more about the legacy left by her wealthy Parisian ancestors, she decides a little family tree pruning might be in order. But great wealth also brings great responsibility – a form of richesse oblige, perhaps – and Blanche has a plan to use her inheritance to cure the world of its ills. Spanning two centuries, from Paris on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War to the modern day, this unforgettable family saga lays bare the persistent and poisonous injustice of inequality. In her trademark razor-sharp style, Hannelore Cayre again delivers the sardonic humour and devilish creativity that made The Godmother an international best seller.
©2020 Hannelore Cayre (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd