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...
Three days at the edge of the new millennium, one moment of madness and one young life's course altered forever. A dazzling new thriller from the master of noir.
@2@@20@Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget.@21@@3@@2@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.@3@@2@ Her only hiding place is in a new identity. A new life, with a man she has met online.@3@@2@ But Sophie is not the only one keeping secrets . . .@3@@2@For fans of @20@Gone Girl@21@ and Lemaitre's own internationally bestselling @20@Alex@21@, @20@Blood Wedding@21@ is a compelling psychological thriller with a formidable female protagonist.@3@@2@@20@Translated from the French by Frank Wynne@21@@3@
October 1918. The war on the Western Front is all butover for most soldiers - except the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'AulnayPradelle. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, Pradelle sends two scoutsover the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroicaction once more. When Albert Maillard realises how the two soldiersmust have died, Pradelle is ready to go to any lengths to silence him. Pushedinto a shell hole and buried alive, Albert is left to face a horrific death -or he is until another soldier, édouard Pericourt digs him out in the nick oftime, loosing half his face to a piece of flying shrapnel for his troubles. So the fates and fortunes of this unlikely pair arebound together. Back in civilian life, both struggle to adjust to a society whosereverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those whosurvived. But Albert and édouard conspire to enact an audaciousform of revenge against the country that abandoned them - first to the trenchesand then to penury and despair - with a scheme to swindle the whole of Franceon an epic scale. Meanwhile, believing her brother killed in action,édouard's sister Madeleine has married Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle, who is runninga little scam of his own...
