Pierre Lemaitre, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Quercus/MacLehose, $24.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-62365-903-5
Winner of the Prix Goncourt, Lemaitre’s assured, somber exploration of post-WWI French society opens shortly before the 1918 armistice. Lt. Henri d’Aulnay-Pradelle murders two of his soldiers to provoke a French attack on German territory, then...
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Pierre Lemaitre, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. MacLehose, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-68144-531-1
Like an ingenious long con, this devious psychological thriller from Prix Goncourt–winner Lemaitre (The Great Swindle) promises a satisfying eventual payoff—but only to readers willing to persevere through a depressing first half centered on a...
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Pierre Lemaitre, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Quercus/MacLehose, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62365-439-9
At the start of the stunning final volume of Lemaitre's Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy (after 2014's Irène), Anne Forestier, the diminutive Paris detective's new girlfriend, surprises two thugs in a restroom as they are preparing to rob the...
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Pierre Lemaitre, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Quercus/MacLehose, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-62365-000-1
At the outset of French author Lemaitre’s impressive American debut, the first in a trilogy, attractive 30-year-old Alex Prévost is shopping for wigs in a Paris shop when she spots a man waiting on the street who’s clearly been following her....
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Pierre Lemaitre, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Quercus/MacLehose, $26.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-62365-800-7
Lemaitre’s chilling first novel, the second to appear in the U.S. featuring Commandant Camille Verhoeven after 2013’s Alex, finds the Parisian policeman enjoying the professional and personal contentment he never knew was possible. He and his squad...
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Pierre Lemaitre, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Quercus, $22.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-68144-178-8
Lemaitre’s searing novel of psychological suspense rests on a terrible tragedy: in 1999, in the French village of Beauval, an angry 12-year-old, Antoine Courtin, hits a little boy, Rémi Desmedt, with a tree branch, accidentally killing him....
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Pierre Lemaitre, trans. from the French by Sam Gordon. MacLehose, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63506-081-2
Alain Delambre, the 57-year-old antihero of this intriguing but overly long thriller from Lemaitre (Three Days and a Life), works a menial job sorting cardboard boxes of medications. When his supervisor kicks Alain in the behind because he’s too...
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Pierre Lemaitre. Little, Brown, $29 (512p) ISBN 978-0-316-44420-0
Lemaitre (Mirror of Our Sorrows) charts in his overlong latest the crimes and scandals of a French family spread across the globe in the years after WWII. It’s 1946, and Jean Pelletier, the oldest of three brothers, is an abject failure, trapped in...
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