An inter-city tale of changing identities that makes for no ordinary crime novel.
‘Gilles Pétel unfurls the twists and turns of his deceptively simple tale with unwavering mastery’ Livres Hebdo
When the body of a Scotsman turns up on board a Channel Tunnel train at the Gare du Nord, Parisian detective Roland Desfeuillères finds himself in charge of a murder investigation. Roland decides to travel to London -and not just in order to progress the inquiry. It’s also a chance to escape his troubled marriage. Arriving in a city gripped by the financial crisis, Roland immerses himself in the victim’s hedonistic lifestyle, as he searches for the motive behind the crime. But the longer he walks in the dead man’s shoes, the more Roland discovers about himself…
Over de auteur
Gilles Pétel was born and raised in Dunkirk. After several years teaching abroad, he published his first book in 1996. He is the author of five novels.
Emily Boyce is a translator and editor. She was shortlisted for the French Book Office New Talent in Translation Award in 2008, the French-American Translation Prize in 2016, and the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2021. She lives in London.
Jane Aitken is a publisher and translator from the French.
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