Pierre Lemaître
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in 1948 Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly sinks the company, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there is another reason Jean must leave--he has committed a terrible crime. Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune...
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A woman who slowly begins a descent into dementia and depression discovers herself connected to the deaths of several nearby people but doesn't remember anything about it and tries to flee the evil that has begun to poison her life.
Author
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with...
4) Camille
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Anne is attacked and stalked by a bank robber she can identify, Commandante Camille Verhoeven vengefully breaks all the rules to protect the woman he loves.
5) Irène
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 1
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Draws on five contemporary and classic literary murder scenes in a prequel to "Alex" that finds Camille Verhoeven linking a brutal double murder to a cold case before his pregnant wife is abducted by the killer.
6) Alex
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Upon winning the prestigious 2013 Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award, the judges praised Alex by saying, "An original and absorbing ability to leash incredulity in the name of the fictional contract between author and reader . . . A police procedural, a thriller against time, a race between hunted and hunter, and a whydunnit, written from multiple points of view that explore several apparently parallel stories which finally meet."