![]() ![]() ![]() The other is his height – a mere four foot, eleven inches – which has led to something of a Napoleon complex and an outspokenness and barbed humour which hardly endears him to his superiors in the complicated French legal system. The kidnap and murder of his pregnant wife led to a breakdown from which, although back at work, he still bears the mental scars. This book has echoes of Edgar Alan Poe, the pace, power and angst of GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and the bleak violence we associate with the noir school, plus an offbeat hero leading an equally mismatched team of detectives.īrigade Criminelle Commandant Verhoeven – that's a DCI to us – suffers under two huge handicaps. ALEX, the middle book in the Camille Verhoeven trilogy, could establish him as a best-seller on both sides of the Channel. Lemaitre, a former literature lecturer, already well known in his own country, is the newest to burst onto the English scene. By Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne, trans.įrom Georges Simenon to Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau – better known by her pseudonym of Fred Vargas – French crime writers have specialised in subversive and edgy plots, leavened by off-centre humour. ![]()
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