![]() ![]() Lemitre soon turns this conventional kidnapping plot on its head, as the detective discovers that the real questions boil down to why. As he races against time to track down the missing victim, he cannot avoid mixing his thoughts and speculations on this new case with the painful memories of his wife.įor a reader of crime novels, the case seems clear enough: who has kidnapped Alex, where is she, and how will the detective find her alive? ![]() He has only recently rejoined the Brigade criminelle in Paris, after having taken time off to recover from the shocking death of his wife, who had been kidnapped and murdered. As she passes out, her only thought is that she wants to live.Ī page or two later we meet the detective assigned to her case, Camille. Brutally beaten, bound and gagged, she lies dazed in the back of a van as it speeds off into the night. Barely a half-dozen pages into Pierre Lemaitre’s crime novel Alex, the title character finds herself kidnapped off the street as she walks home from a restaurant. ![]()
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