Alex

By Pierre Lemaitre

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Alex is a crime novel by French writer Pierre Lemaitre, first published in France in 2011 and in English in 2013. A young woman named Alex is abducted off a Paris street and imprisoned in a wooden cage, while police commandant Camille Verhoeven races to find her. As the investigation unfolds, the story takes a series of shocking turns that overturn assumptions about who is victim and who is villain. The English translation by Frank Wynne won the CWA International Dagger.

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