Irene (Camille Verhoeven Trilogy #1)
Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
For Commandant Verh/ven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him - his every move is headline news. When he discovers that the killer has killed before - that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname...The Novelist...With both men in the public eye, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner - whoever has the least to lose...
Product Information
Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature and now devotes his time to writing novels and screenplays. In 2013 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, for Au revoir la-haut. Frank Wynne is a translator from French and Spanish. His translations include works by Michel Houellebecq, Marcelo Figueras's IFFP-shortlisted Kamchatka and Alex by Pierre Lemaitre.
General Fields
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- : Quercus
- : MacLehose Press
- : 0.27
- : 01 December 2013
- : 3.20 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 19.80 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Pierre Lemaitre
- : Paperback
- : 400