Irene

Irene

Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre

Location(s): Paris

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): Early 2000s

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For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène.

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 the killer has killed before – that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel – the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname… The Novelist…

With both men in the public eye, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner – whoever has the least to lose…

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This is a pretty gory but well plotted crime thriller. It has a distinct French flavour, though Paris is not a really big part of the story.

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Crime novel set in Paris (The power of books)

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Author Pierre Lemaitre is a relative newcomer in the UK to the genre crime thriller set in Europe – excellently translated into English by Frank Wynne. His main character Commandant Camille Verhoeven is a flawed, very determined yet physically...