Thursday, February 20, 2014

After ScandiNoir, French are new crime fiction stars

French writer Pierre Lemaitre(R) seen next to the President of the Goncourt jury Edmonde Charles-Roux, after being awarded with France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for his novel 'Au revoir la-haut', in Paris, on November 4, 2013 Police chief Camille Verhoeven is diminutive, pugnacious and brilliant. The shambolic Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg prefers intuition over logic. Victor Legris juggles bookselling with solving grim 19th century murders. After the international success of Scandinavian crime writing, France's own small army of fictional detectives and amateur sleuths is sparking unprecedented interest from English-language publishers on the lookout for the next big thing.








via Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

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