Published 01.06.15
The first Camille Verhoeven
investigation - a prequel to the acclaimed and bestselling Alex. Commandant
Verhoeven is on the trail of a murderer with literary aspirations.
For Commandant Verhoeven life is
beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely
Irène.
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...
Alex $24.99
Published 01.06.15
In kidnapping cases, the
first few hours are vital. Police Commandant Camille Verhœven has nothing to go
on: no suspect, no leads, no hope. But as he begins to understand more about
Alex, he starts to realise she is no ordinary victim...
Winner of the CWA International
Dagger Award 2013.
In kidnapping cases, the first
few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from
slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no
ordinary victim, but her time is running out.
Commandant Camille Verhœven and
his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing
hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and
bundled into a white van.
The enigma that is the fate of
Alex will keep Verhœven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before long,
saving her life will be the least of his worries.
Camille $24.99
Published 08.09.15
The gripping final chapter of
the bestselling Camille Verhœven trilogy.
Winner of the 2015 C.W.A.
International Dagger.
Anne Forestier finds herself in
the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jewellers
on the Champs-Élysées. Shot three times, beaten almost beyond recognition, she
is lucky to survive, but her ordeal has only just begun. Lying helpless in her
hospital bed, with her assailant still at large, Anne is in grave danger. Just
one thing stands in her favour - a partner who will break all the rules to
protect the woman he loves: Commandant Camille Verhœven.
For Verhœven it's a case of
history repeating. He cannot lose Anne as he lost his wife Irène. But his
serious breach of protocol - leading a case in which he is intimately involved
- leaves him out on a limb, unable to confide in even his most trusted
lieutenants. And this time he is facing an adversary whose greatest strength
appears to be Verhœven's own matchless powers of intuition.
All three titles published by Macelhose Press in 2015. What a superb trilogy. Can't wait for more of his work to be translated.... he is up among the very best in the crime fiction world I reckon..
About the author:(from Wikipedia):
Pierre Lemaitre is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter. His first novel to be translated into English, Alex, is a translation of the French book of the same title, it won the CWA ........ Wikipedia
Born: April 19, 1951 (age 64), Paris, France
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