he is respected by his colleagues and he and his lovely wife, Irene, are expecting their first child.īut when a new murder case hits his desk-a double torture-homicide that''s so extreme that even the most seasoned officers are horrified-Verhoeven is overcome with a sense of foreboding.Īs links emerge between the bloody set-piece and at least one past unsolved murder, it becomes clear that a calculating serial killer is at work.
In Irene Lemaitre ingeniously uses five contemporary and classic literary murder scenes-from William McIlvanney''s Laidlaw to Bret Easton Ellis''s American Psycho-as the framework on which to craft a diabolical prequel to his Crime Writers'' Association International Dagger Award-winning novel Alex.Ĭamille Verhoeven, whose diminutive stature belies his fierce intensity, has reached an unusually content (for him) place in life. Pierre Lemaitre is known for writing crime fiction with an alchemical mix of white-knuckle intensity, fearlessly unconventional plotting, and psychologically intricate character development.
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