Pierre Lemaître
1) Irène
Author
Publisher
MaLehose Press
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he's happily married, and expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder so savage that even the most hardened officers on the force are shaken to the core. In the face of the seemingly motiveless horror, only Verhoeven makes the vital connection - the crime scene resembles one described in a James Ellroy novel too closely for there to be any coincidence....
2) Alex
Author
Series
Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 2
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost, 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. The enigma...
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sophie Duguet--young, successful, and happily married--thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she'd parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she'd said and done, too. And when she was detained by the police for shoplifting, a crime she didn't remember committing, the confusion and blackouts...
Author
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out. So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking....
Author
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in 1948 Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly sinks the company, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there is another reason Jean must leave-he has committed a terrible crime. Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune...
7) Alex
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost, 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. The enigma...
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines. When another of D'Aulnay-Pradelle's soldiers, Albert Maillard, reaches the bodies and discovers how they died, the lieutenant shoves him into a shell hole to silence him. Albert is rescued by fellow soldier,...
9) Camille
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 3
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
10) Wielki świat
Author
Series
Publisher
Albatros
Publication Date
2024.
Language
Polish
Description
Louis Pelletier zbił fortunę na mydle. Ma nadzieję przekazać świetnie prosperującą fabrykę w Bejrucie najstarszemu synowi, Jeanowi. Ten jednak nie ma głowy do interesów i zamiast rozwijać rodzinne imperium, doprowadza je na skraj bankructwa. Jego żona marzy o Paryżu i splendorze wyższych sfer, więc namawia go na wyjazd. Ale jest jeszcze jeden powód, dla którego Jean powinien opuścić Bejrut - popełnił straszliwą zbrodnię. Tymczasem...

