Sébastien Lepetit (30 August 1969 – 3 March 2025) was a French crime fiction writer.[1]

Biography

Born in Loudéac on 30 August 1969, Lepetit published his first crime fiction novel in 2013, titled Merde à Vauban, which was part of the Les Enquêtes du commissaire Morteau series. The novel took place in the backdrop for the Fortifications of Vauban in their candidacy to become a World Heritage Site. The book received the readers' choice award in the Grand prix VSD du polar [fr] that year.[2] In 2016, his second novel in the series, titled L'Origine du crime - Deux enterrements à Ornans, received the Prix polar du Lions Club de Rambouillet.[3]

Sébastien Lepetit died of colorectal cancer on 3 March 2025, at the age of 55.[4]

Works

Les Enquêtes du commissaire Morteau

  • Merde à Vauban (2013)
  • L’Origine du crime : deux enterrements à Ornans (2016)
  • Il y aura du sang sur la neige (2018)

Les Mystères de l'Argentor

  • Barnabé (2014)
  • La Korrandine de Tevelune (2014)

References

  1. ^ "L'auteur de polars ancrés en Franche-Comté, Sébastien Lepetit, est décédé". L'Est Républicain (in French). Besançon. 4 March 2025. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
  2. ^ "Le Palmarès 2013". Grand prix VSD du polar (in French). Archived from the original on 27 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Sébastien LEPETIT, prix 2016 du Polar du Lions Club Rambouillet". Lions Club de Rambouillet (in French). Archived from the original on 31 March 2021.
  4. ^ Massé, Clément (3 March 2025). "Il avait médiatisé son combat contre le cancer, l'ancien sous-préfet Sébastien Lepetit est décédé". France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2025.
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