Pierre Lemaître
1) Irène
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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, only Verhoeven makes the vital connection - the crime scene resembles one described in a James Ellroy novel too closely for there to be any coincidence....
2) Alex
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2013, ©2011.
Language
English
3) Camille
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1948 Beirut, the eldest son of a prominent French family, Jean, who has committed a terrible crime, emigrates to Paris with his materialistic wife, while Etienne, the youngest son, seeks to make his fortune in Saigon and middle son, journalist Francois, tracks a killer who is closer than he thinks.
Author
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...
8) Alex
Author
Language
English
Formats
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."
Author
Language
Français
Description
Dans une suite d'échanges mémorables, Une veillée de récits magiques est un savant mélange entre surnaturel, mystère et énigme. L'auteur met en scène des êtres fantastiques, des sorciers ainsi que des humains ordinaires pour nous faire vivre des situations de la vie quotidienne. Un tour d'horizon singulier de la situation du monde pour interroger la part de magie qui sommeille dans notre existence.
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