Blood Wedding (32 page)
Authors: Pierre Lemaitre
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“
Gripping,
frightening, intelligent and brilliant
. . . Will delight crime aficionados”
MARCEL BERLINS
,
The Times
“Confirms Camille Verhœven as
one the most intriguing protagonists to emerge in crime writing in recent years
”
DECLAN BURKE
,
Irish Times
“
Ingeniously plotted
, deftly mixing dark and comic scenes, introducing the detective’s team with panache”
JOHN DUGDALE
,
Sunday Times
“A page-turning race to
a grand-slam finish
”
LAURA WILSON
,
Guardian
“
Quirky, brutal and not for the faint-hearted, it is crime fiction of the highest class
. . . Superbly constructed and executed, it puts Lemaitre very close to Ellroy’s class.
If you pick it up, you won’t be able to put it down
”
GEOFFREY WANSELL
,
Daily Mail
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AVAILABLE
Pierre Lemaitre
ALEX
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
SHE’S RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Kidnapped, savagely beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden cage, Alex Prévost is in no position to bargain. Her abductor’s only wish is to watch her die.
HE ONLY WANTS ONE THING
Apart from a shaky police report, Commandant Camille Verhœven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads. If he’s to find Alex, he’ll have to get inside her head.
BUT ESCAPE IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Beautiful, tough, resourceful, always two steps ahead – Alex will keep Verhœven guessing till the bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.
BOOK TWO OF THE BRIGADE CRIMINELLE TRILOGY
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“Moves
from
read-as-fast-as-you-can horror
to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth . . .
Alex
is about thrills. And as the novel barrels triumphantly towards its unexpected but satisfying conclusion, it’s in this respect that it delivers”
ALISON FLOOD
,
Observer
“It is quickly apparent that
Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss
. . . And Alex herself turns out to be the author’s ace-in-the-hole. By page 200 you may believe that you’re moving to a pulse-raising conclusion. But you will be wrong;
in some senses, the novel has only just begun
”
BARRY FORSHAW
,
Independent
“Unlike many novels of this type in which the promise of a sensational premise fizzles out, there is
a spectacular plot twist
and the tension, along with the body count, mounts ever higher –
an invigoratingly scary, one-sitting read
”
LAURA WILSON
,
Guardian
“
Harsh, fierce crime writing
with a Gauloise tinge. It would not be out of place filmed in black and white by the late, lamented François Truffaut”
GEOFFREY WANSELL
,
Daily Mail
“Pierre Lemaitre . . .
another master of crime fiction
destined to become a household name”
ADAM SAGE
,
The Times
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Pierre Lemaitre
CAMILLE
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
WITH NOTHING ELSE TO LOSE
Anne Forestier was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Beaten beyond recognition at a raid on a jeweller’s, she is lucky to survive. But her ordeal has only just begun.
HE CAN BREAK ALL THE RULES
Lying helpless in her hospital bed, with her assailant still at large, Anne is in grave danger. Just one thing gives her hope: Commandant Camille Verhœven.
TO PROTECT THE WOMAN HE LOVES
For Verhœven it’s a case of history repeating. He cannot lose Anne as he lost Irène. But this time his adversary’s greatest strength appears to be Verhœven’s own powers of intuition.
BOOK THREE OF THE BRIGADE CRIMINELLE TRILOGY
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“Delivering
more than
its fair share of twists and turns,
Camille
is also a beautifully nuanced portrait of a most
unlikely hero
, and one who’s absence – if this truly is the last we’ll see of Commandant Verhœven –
will be keenly felt
”
DECLAN BURKE
,
Irish Times
“This
original and poignant story
is the final instalment in a trilogy that has been
a dazzling success . . .
Lots of intuition and a sprinkling of police procedure
always do the trick
”
JESSICA MANN
,
Sunday Times
“Demonstrates that its predecessors,
Irène
and
Alex,
were no flukes . . . A
satisfying finis to the trilogy
”
BARRY FORSHAW
,
Independent
“The last novel in the
gripping trilogy
that encompassed
Alex
and
Irène
”
MARCEL BERLINS
,
The Times
PIERRE LEMAITRE
was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature and now writes novels and screenplays. In 2013 he was awarded the C.W.A. International Dagger for
Alex
, and again in 2015 for
Camille
, the second and third books in the crime trilogy featuring Commandant Camille Verhoeven that began with
Irène
. In 2013 he was also the winner of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, for his novel
Au revoir là-haut
, published in English in 2015 as
The Great Swindle
.
FRANK WYNNE
is a translator from French and Spanish of works by Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Antonin Varenne, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Carlos Acosta and Hervé le Corre. He has been the winner of the Impac Prize, the
Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize, the Premio Valle-Inclán and the Scott Moncrieff Prize.