Horsefly

A book with bite.Thought-provoking Quebec eco-thriller links biological weapons, spike in violence.

-- Keith Cadieux * The Free Press *

Weird, disgusting, and kind of great…akin to a modern Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…The result is a strange, uncomfortable, and compelling read. I blew through this one in about a day and highly recommend it.

* Brief Ecology Substack *

Inspired by historical facts, Mireille Gagné’s new novel, Frappabord, at times takes on the appearance of a waking nightmare. Terribly disturbing, but furiously captivating.

-- Laila Maalouf * La Presse *

Horsefly moves at a brisk pace as it jumps from scene to scene, but it never feels rushed. Instead it’s a tight story where the tension starts simmering early and constantly threatens to boil over—into violence or sex, into something where blood is spilled.

-- Roz Milner * Ancillary Review of Books *

Poised somewhere between speculative and historical fiction, Horsefly elegantly reveals how limited our view of the future is if we can’t investigate – and excavate – the worst chapters of the past.

-- Emily Mernin * Montreal Review of Books *

How this little creature resurfaces thanks to the warming, what catastrophe it causes, is what the virtuoso Mireille Gagné recounts in this barely fictional tale, skillfully told, where the insect will have the last word.

-- A.N. * L'Humanit