Alex: The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy Audiobook

Quotes

• “[A] gritty page-turner.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Genuinely unpredictable in a way few suspense novels are.”

  — USA Today

• “Tricky, disturbing, and ultimately affecting, Alex is a welcome addition to the rising tide of European crime fiction that has followed in the wake of Stieg Larsson’s death. Larsson’s many readers should take this book to their hearts and should find themselves waiting, with some degree of impatience, for the next Verhoeven novel to appear.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Both a psychological thriller and a police procedural, it enthralls at every stage of its unpredictability…Grippingly original.”

  — Times (London)

• “Relentlessly gripping…Various subtle variations of the crime novel are handled with aplomb…By page 200 you may believe that you’re moving to a pulse-raising conclusion. But you will be wrong; in some senses, the novel has only just begun.”

  — Independent (London)

• “Divided into three distinct acts [Alex] offers an intriguing structure…Lemaître is not only providing a fascinating variation of the traditional crime narrative but also a commentary on the genre itself. Hailed as the most important crime novel in translation since Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alex similarly features as an intriguingly flawed feminist heroine bent on vengeance, and will likely prove a sensation of the crime fiction year.”

  — Irish Times

• “A weaver of dark and disturbing crime fiction…Lemaître brings his stinging, bitter story to a genuinely unexpected conclusion. We are not in the comfortable world of Inspector Maigret here—this is harsh, fierce crime writing with a Gauloise tinge. It would not be out of place filmed in black-and-white by the late, lamented Francois Truffaut, who loved crime tales like this.”

  — Daily Mail (London)

• “Lemaître’s impressive American debut…Unexpected plot twists will keep readers turning the pages.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “An eloquent thriller with a denouement that raises eyebrows as it speeds the pulse.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “An off-beat and slightly surreal Parisian mystery…A warmly recommended read.”

  — Literary Review (London)

• “Exhilarating, literary, Hitchcockian…This new investigation of Commandant Camille Verhoeven resumes with the sense of suspense, the art of the unexpected twist, the play on emotions that so seduced us.”

  — Le Monde

• Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss—Independent, -

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