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Alex by Pierre Lemaitre; Frank Wynne (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy Ser.
Un autor premiado con los m s prestigiosos premios de novela negra y con el Premio Goncourt, con medio mill n de ejemplares vendidos. La gran novela que supuso el inicio de la fulgurante carrera internacional de Lemaitre. Alex Uno de los mejores libros del a o seg n el Financial Times, ganador del Premi ...Show more
Alex by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Paris Crime Files Ser.
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no ...Show more
Alex (Camille Verhoeven Trilogy #2) by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction | Series: The Camille Verhoeven Trilogy
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 Prevost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Ver ...Show more
Camille by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction | Series: The Camille Verhoeven Trilogy
Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she is trapped in the middle of a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-Elysees. Shot three times, she is lucky to survive - and morbidly unlucky to remember the face of her assailant. Followed home from her hospital bed, Anne is in grav ...Show more
Couleurs de l'incendie by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction
La 4ème de couverture indique : "Février 1927. Après le décès de Marcel Péricourt, sa fille, Madeleine, doit prendre la tête de l'empire financier dont elle est l'héritière. Mais elle a un fils, Paul, qui d'un geste inattendu et tragique, va la placer sur le chemin de la ruine et du déclassement. Face à ...Show more
Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre; Sam Gordon (Translator)
Category: Fiction
When Alain Delambre lost his job four years ago, he lost everything. Now he's breaking all the rules for one last shot at the life he thinks he deserves. "you won't see the final twist coming" The New York Times "A really excellent suspense novelist." Stephen King Alain Delambre is a fifty-s ...Show more
Irene by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction
For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he's happily married, and expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder so savage that even the most hardened officers on the force are shaken to the core. In the face of the seemingly motiveless horror, o ...Show more
Irene (Camille Verhoeven Trilogy #1) by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction | Series: The Camille Verhoeven Trilogy
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 th ...Show more
Mirror of our Sorrows by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction
"Tremendous and enjoyable" - La Libre Belgique"A great success" - La CroixApril, 1940. Louise Belmont runs, naked, down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the tragic scene she has just experienced, she will have to plunge into the madness of the 'Phoney War', when the whole of France, seized b ...Show more
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction
The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines. When another of D'Aulnay-Pradelle's soldiers, Albert Mail ...Show more
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
Category: Fiction
October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more. And so is set in motion a series of ...Show more
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre; Frank Wynne (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Now a major French film Au revoir l#65533;-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Ir#65533;ne and Camille.October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends t ...Show more