The Frozen Dead: A Novel (Commandant Martin Servaz)

Minier, Bernard

ISBN 10: 1250045533 / ISBN 13: 9781250045539

Edité par Minotaur Books, 2014

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Synopsis :

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Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens.
Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff.
On the same day the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high-security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylum's director uses, and then greatly alarmed when she realizes that drugs are disappearing from within the fortified institution while someone seems to be slipping out at night.
Commandant Martin Servaz, a charismatic city cop from nearby Toulouse fond of quoting Latin, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there's something disturbing about this crime that he can't ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum, a highly intelligent former prosecutor, accused of killing and raping several women, is found on the horse carcass . . . and a few days later the first human murder takes place. A dark story of madness and revenge seems to be unfolding.
Servaz and his colleague, the mysterious Irene Ziegler, must use all their skill to solve the terrifying mystery and best one of the most fiendish and clever opponents they could ever imagine.

Revue de presse: A publishing sensation in France, where it's rushed up the bestseller lists, this is Minier's first crime novel and this translation justifies its vast French reputation...With a villain possessing the intelligence of Thomas Harris's immortal Hannibal Lecter, this is great story-telling, with a creeping sense of dread that would not disgrace Stephen King at his best. (Daily Mail)

A terrific thriller that will keep you up long past your bedtime. The French Pyrenees make a wonderfully atmospheric setting for this complex story of past crimes, madness and revenge. Servaz and Ziegler are a fascinating cop duo, and I hope to see more of them in the future. Excellent. (Peter Robinson, author of the DCI Banks series)

Revenge is at the heart of this clever mystery, which involves a plot as cold-blooded as the slaying of the horse (Sunday Times)

This densely written and very atmospheric thriller is Minier's first novel. It has been a bestseller in France and, in this well-translated English edition, deserves to be one here (Literary Review)

An enjoyable and fast-paced thriller (Sunday Business Post)

Chilling (Elle)

The writing is razor sharp and nothing goes to waste. Enough to make other authors jealous. (Femme Actuelle)

THE FROZEN DEAD is a boiling-hot success (Le Point)

Remember the name Bernard Minier... he might well take his places among the masters of French thrillers (Le Figaro)

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Frozen Dead: A Novel (Commandant Martin ...
Éditeur : Minotaur Books
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Very Good