‘I’m a killer, an assassin, a murderer, a criminal. But above all, I’m an artist.’

France, 1986. Achilles Clazay is a successful and charismatic businessman who is adored by his partner and respected by his colleagues. He is also a talented artist who lives for his work.

His latest project is Françoise Laville and she’s gagged in the shower, about to die. Because Achilles is the notorious serial killer who has been carving great works of art into the ‘canvas’ of his victims’ skin for five years.

But a copycat murder soon changes everything in his brutally ordered life. Naturally, Achilles is enraged by his imitator and will stop at nothing to find him. He is a practised hunter, but the hunt for the imposter will reveal dark secrets even he couldn’t have dreamt of. Will he survive the chase?

An author with an unpronounceable name, originally from the South of France and currently living near La Rochelle, Luca Tahtieazym has published eight novels to date. Juggling with genres and styles, inspired by Steinbeck, Ellroy, Dard and Stephen King, he takes particular care over the plots of his books, striving to offer original stories and tormented and engaging characters.

A Killer’s Game won the 2017 Francophone Plumes award.

Back in 2001, after having read Philosophy and French at the University of Leeds and realising that being able to write a decent essay on Kant’s Categorical Imperative didn’t leave her with a great many career options, Alexandra Maldwyn-Davies decided to move to Paris, where she embarked on a career in writing and translation.

She is currently working on two projects of her own: her first novel and a sourcebook, Women in Translation (a collection of writings and articles on translation from the female perspective). She has steadily built a successful freelance French-to-English literary translation business and can now boast that she does what she loves every day of her life: she tells stories.

She lives in rural Finistère with her daughter (a future bilingual genius if ever she met one) and a motley crew of thirteen rescued dogs and cats.