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Alex: The Heart-Stopping International Bestseller (The Paris Crime Files)

Alex: The Heart-Stopping International Bestseller (The Paris Crime Files)

by Frank Wynne (Translator), Frank Wynne (Translator), Pierre Lemaitre (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

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 Verh/ven 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 Verh/ven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 01 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 1782060790
ISBN 13: 9781782060796

Media Reviews
A really excellent suspense novelist. Stephen King. MacLehose has done it again ... in Pierre Lemaitre he has unearthed another master of crime fiction destined to become a household name. -- Adam Sage The Times. Grippingly original ... It enthralls at every stage of its unpredictability. -- Marcel Berlins The Times. Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth ... Alex is about thrills. -- Alison Flood Observer. An invigoratingly scary, one-sitting read. -- Laura Wilson Guardian. 'An absolute gem' Eurocrime. Eurocrime 'Brutal crime writing with a tinge of Gauloise ... brilliant' Daily Mail. Daily Mail 'An invigoratingly scary one-sitting read' Guardian. Guardian 'Relentlessly gripping, Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss' Independent. Independent 'Hailed as the most important crime novel in translation since Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alex similarly features as an intriguingly flawed feminist heroine bent on vengeance, and will likely prove a sensation of the crime fiction year' Irish Times. Irish Times 'Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth' Alison Flood, Observer. Observer 'It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original' The Times. The Times
Author Bio
Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature before becoming a novelist. He was awarded the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger, alongside Fred Vargas, for Alex, and as sole winner for Camille. In 2013 his novel Au revoir la-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award.