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Dead Horsemeat
Author(s): Dominique Manotti (Author), Amanda Hopkinson (Translator), Ros Schwartz (Translator)
- Publisher: Arcadia Books
- Publication Date: 2 May 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1900850826
- ISBN-13: 9781900850827
Book Description
Another exhilarating crime novel by the best-selling author of “Rough Trade”, chosen Book of the Year in the “Independent” by Amanda Hopkinson and Joan Smith. A group of school friends who campaigned together at Rennes in the heydey of 1968: Agathe Renourd and her protege Nicolas Berger are in charge of the communications network of a major insurance consortium; Christian Deluc has become a council member at the Elysee Palace; Amelie raises thoroughbreds. Now, in 1989, the paths of these former students are due to cross in an entirely unexpected fashion as they start playing with fire, carried along by the euphoria born of power. Events begin to take off: race horses die under mysterious circumstances; unimaginable quantities of cocaine appear at Parisian parties and dashing Nicolas Berger meets a violent end when a bomb explodes in his car.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“‘Manotti has Ellroy’s gift for complex plotting, but she has a grip on the economics, politics and social history which marks her as special… good generic crime fiction, with le flair in abundance’ – TLS ‘The novel I liked most this year. Set in Le Sentier, the district of Paris where expensive clothes are made in sweatshops, it uses real events – the struggle by foreign workers in 1980 to get legal status – as the setting for an extraordinarily vivid crime novel’ – Joan Smith, Books of the Year, Independent ‘A splendid neo-realistic tale of everyday bleakness and transgression set in the seedy underworld of Paris. You can smell the Gitanes and pastis fumes of the real France’ – Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian”
About the Author
Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. Rough Trade, her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association.
