Alex

By Pierre Lemaitre

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Alex (2011) is a crime novel by French writer Pierre Lemaitre, the second in his Camille Verhoeven trilogy and the first translated into English, by Frank Wynne in 2013. A young woman named Alex is abducted in Paris and imprisoned in a wooden cage. Police commandant Camille Verhoeven, haunted by his wife's abduction and murder, reluctantly takes the case. The investigation takes a series of shocking turns that overturn assumptions about who is victim and who is villain. It won the 2013 CWA International Dagger.

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