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The first novel in THE GLORIOUS YEARS, the epic series from the award-winning, bestselling author of THE GREAT SWINDLE - translated by Frank Wynne'Pierre Lemaitre skilfully captivates and stuns the reader' Le Figaro

Literature with conviction, a furious talent' L'ObsBeirut, 1948. The Pelletier family returns... The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturing and exporting artisanal soaps. He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son, Jean, but Jean doesn't have the sharpness or aptitude for such an enterprise. After nearly running the company into the ground, Jean mar...

From Beirut in 1948, to Saigon and Paris, this is the story of the Pelletier family, rich with corruption, death, blackmail - and murder. From a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, and three times winner of the Crime Writers' International Dagger award.

Mathilde was a member of the French resistance, who both impressed and horrified everyone with her cool capacity for violence. But now she's 63 and starting to lose her memory and behave erratically. This is a potentially dangerous situation, since Mathilde now makes her living as a contract killer...

The final novel in Pierre Lemaitre's between-the-wars trilogy - a riotous depiction of the Phoney War from the perspective of an unlikely group of people caught up in its chaos.

The final novel in Pierre Lemaitre's between-the-wars trilogy - a riotous depiction of the Phoney War from the perspective of an unlikely group of people caught up in its chaos.

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The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy

The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling between-the-wars trilogy

The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he's happily married, and expectinghis first child with the lovely Irène.But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder so savage that even themost hardened officers on the force are shaken to the core. In the face of theseemingly motiveless horror, only Verhoeven makes the vital connection - thecrime scene resembles one described in a James Ellroy novel too closely forthere to be any coincidenc...

The gripping final chapter of the bestselling Camille Verh÷ven trilogy

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In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. ALEX Prévost - 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 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. T...

The gripping final chapter of the bestselling CAMILLE Verhœven trilogy.

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 devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Mai...

Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget. One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story is no match for the evidence piled against her. Her only hiding place is in a new identity. A new life, with a man she has met online. But Sophie is not the only one keeping secrets . . .

A gripping standalone psychological thriller about marriage, manipulation and murder by the internationally bestselling author of "Alex".

A historical novel from the French author of the crime series "Alex, Irene" and "Camille", set during and after WWI. It won the Prix-Goncourt, and is translated by Frank Wynne.