Pierre Lemaitre

Alex Prévost may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives have nothing to go on: all they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.

Sophie Duguet is losing her grip. Haunted by visions from her past, of her loving husband, who committed suicide after a car accident.One morning she wakes to find Leo, the child in her care, strangled in his bed by Sophie's own shoelaces. She can remember nothing of the night before. Could she really have killed him? She flees in panic, but this only cements her guilt in the eyes of the law. Not long afterwards it happens again - she wakes with blood on her hands, with no memory of the murder committed. Just what is it that comes over Sophie when she sleeps? And what else might she be capable of? Wanted by the police, and desperate to change her identity, Sophie decides to find a man to marry. To have and to hold. For better or for worse. Till death does them part . . .

Commandant Camille Verhoeven will break all the rules to protect the woman he loves. Drawn into a labyrinthine web with answers ever out of reach, Camille must draw on all his talent to face an enemy who threatens everything he holds dear.

Commandant Verhoeven is happily married and expecting his first child with the lovely Irène. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When he discovers that the killer has killed before – and that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the newspapers are quick to coin a nickname - The Novelist.