The Crime Writers’ Association

Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2014

Shortlisted


Pierre Lemaitre

tr. Frank Wynne

Irène

Published by: Quercus/MacLehose

In this first book of Lemaître’s ‘Verhoeven’ trilogy, the weight of horror-filled noir from both the US and Europe motivates a serial killer whose murders seem to enact violence taken from both obscure writers, to such notables as Ellroy, Ellis, and the Swedish duo Sjöwall and Wahlöö. Lemaître’s own characteristic horrors ask us to reflect on the influence of crime writing, in a clever, complex, meta-fiction about books and butchers.

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