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Original title Travail soigné Language English Publisher MacLehose Press Originally published 2015 Page count 398 Followed by Alex | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country France Series Verhœven series Publication date March 6, 2014 Genre Crime Fiction Translator Frank Wynne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Irene (Camille Verhœven Trilogy #1) is a crime novel written by French novelist Pierre Lemaitre. The novel, though originally published in French in 2006, came to be translated to English by Frank Wynne in 2014. It is the first book in the Camille Verhœven series by publication order but the second to be translated in English after Alex.
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Daily Mail in a 2014 issue, referred to it as part of a 'new wave of crime fiction taking the world by storm'.
It was shortlisted in the CWA International Dagger award 2014 and received positive reviews internationally.
Plot
Commandant Verhoeven is happily married, expecting his first child with his lovely wife Irène. . A series of unsolved murders start to put a strian to his relationship. With his personal life in shambles, he further has to deal with the press. Then Verhoeven makes a breakthrough discovery: the murders are modeled after the exploits of serial killers from classic works of crime fiction and that the killer has killed before. With time running out, Verhoeven realizes that all along he's been the unwitting dupe in The Novelist's plans to create an original work of his own.