In his acclaimed, award-winning novels "Alex "and "Irene, " Pierre Lemaitre created an unforgettable character in Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven. Now, in "Camille, " the final volume in Lemaitre's internationally bestselling trilogy of "meta-meta detective" novels ("The New York Times"), Verhoe[...]
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are vital. Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, no hope. But as he begins to understand more about Alex, he starts to realise she is no ordinary victim...[...]
Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she is trapped in the middle of a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-Elysees. Shot three times, she is lucky to survive - and morbidly unlucky to remember the face of her assailant. Followed home from her hospital bed, Anne is in [...]
For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. 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 th[...]
The first Camille Verhoeven investigation - a prequel to the acclaimed and bestselling Alex. Commandant Verhoeven is on the trail of a murderer with literary aspirations.[...]
The first Camille Verhoeven investigation - a prequel to the acclaimed and bestselling Alex. Commandant Verhoeven is on the trail of a murderer with literary aspirations.[...]
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 b[...]
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are vital. Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, no hope. But as he begins to understand more about Alex, he starts to realise she is no ordinary victim...[...]
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are vital. Police Commandant Camille VerhÃ?â??ven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, no hope. But as he begins to understand more about Alex, he starts to realise she is no ordinary victim...[...]
For Commandant Verh/ven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. 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 tha[...]
Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she keeps losing things; she is constantly forgetting situations; she's detained by the police in a supermarket for petty theft that she doesn't remember having committed. And the bodies start piling up around her. We can't reveal any more ab[...]
Alex Prévost bliver brutalt overfaldet på åben gade og smidt ind i en hvid varevogn. Hendes kidnapper efterlader hende nøgen i et bur flere meter over jorden i en forladt fabriksejendom. Dagene går, og tiden er ved at rinde ud. Bliver det sulten, tørsten eller kulden, der gør det af med Alex [...]