[ebooktalk] Re: Audio book
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:03:31 +0100
Sounds very promising thanks David, though I didn't reccon much to The Dragon
Tattoo.
I look forward to reading it.
Shell.
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From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:13 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Audio book
> Hi
>
> I will shortly be posting sendspace links to the book "Alex" by Pierre
> Lemaitre.
>
> This book has just won the Crime Writer's Association award for best
> translated book of 2012. Having just finished the book myself, I would not
> recommend it to those who do not enjoy descriptions of torture.
>
>
> Review
> 'It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original'
> The Times.
>
> 'A weaver of dark and disturbing crime fiction ... Lemaitre brings his
> stinging, bitter story to a genuinely unexpected conclusion' Daily Mail.
>
> 'The book moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately
> plotted race to a dark truth' Observer.
>
> 'Hailed as the most important crime novel in translation since Stieg
> Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alex similarly features as an
> intriguingly flawed feminist heroine bent on vengeance, and will likely
> prove a sensation of the crime fiction year' The Irish Times.
>
> 'A beguiling series of investigations linked only by Alex, a Parisian
> version of Lisbeth Salander' Sunday Times.
>
> 'Every so often a crime novel comes along that creates a remarkable buzz ...
> a truly thrilling command of language' Good Book Guide.
>
> 'Exhilarating, literary, Hitchcockian' Le Monde magazine.
>
> 'An absolute gem ... wonderfully dark, scary, mad, bad and dangerous to
> know, but just far too good to miss' Raven Crime Reads.
>
> 'A spectacular plot twist and the tension, along with the body count, mounts
> ever higher - an invigoratingly scary, one-sitting read' Guardian.
> Product Description
> Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013
>
> 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.
>
> The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verhoeven guessing until the
> bitter, bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of
> his worries.
>
>
>
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