Irene (Verhœven series)

Irene

Cover of Irene
Author Pierre Lemaitre
Original title Travail soigné
Translator Frank Wynne
Country France
Language English
Series Verhœven series
Genre Crime fiction
Publisher MacLehose Press
Publication date
March 6, 2014
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 398
ISBN 978-0-857-05288-9
Followed by Alex

Irene (Camille Verhœven Trilogy #1) is a crime novel written by French novelist Pierre Lemaitre. The novel, though originally published in French in 2006, came to be translated to English by Frank Wynne [1] in 2014. It is the first book in the Camille Verhœven series by publication order but the second to be translated in English after Alex.

Daily Mail[2] in a 2014 issue, referred to it as part of a 'new wave of crime fiction taking the world by storm'.

It was shortlisted [3] in the CWA International Dagger award 2014 and received positive reviews internationally.

Plot

Commandant Verhoeven is happily married, expecting his first child with his lovely wife Irène.[4] But his wife gets kidnapped and brutally murdered. With is personal life in shambles, he further has to deal with the press. Then Verhoeven makes a breakthrough discovery: the murders are modeled after the exploits of serial killers from classic works of crime fiction and that the killer has killed before. With time running out, Verhoeven realizes that all along he's been the unwitting dupe in The Novelist's plans to create an original work of his own.

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