Under the Channel

by Gilles Petel

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Pub Date 12 May 2014 | Archive Date 5 Oct 2016

Gallic Books

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

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...

Advance Praise

Gilles Pétel unfurls the twists and turns of his deceptively simple tale with unwavering mastery. --Livres Hebdo

Not so much a crime novel as a collision, or even a collusion, between detective and victim ... unexpected in the direction it took and somewhat utopian in the finale it reaches ... very nicely balanced in its story telling --Shots magazine

Flecks of wit, and a singularly unexpected outcome --Raven Crime