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'Violent and atmospheric' Bookgeeks
When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school, Lamar, a New York detective for twelve years, is called to the scene.
A student, aged seventeen, has shot everyone in his path before shooting himself. Having collected all the evidence, Lamar reconstructs the blood-soaked morning of the killer.
Ten days later, a second massacre occurs at a school in Queens. Once more, a student kills multiple victims before turning the gun on himself. A new massacre occurs elsewhere. Three sets of killings in three weeks, all the same with the perpetrators committing suicide. It isn't just a coincidence...
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About the author
Maxime Chattam was born in Val-d’Oise, just outside Paris. He studied criminology and worked as a bookseller before he began writing full-time. His bestselling crime novels include La Trilogie du mal (The Evil Trilogy). As a regular visitor to the USA, Maxime has set many of his novels in the States including Carnage, a detective story investigating a spate of New York high-school massacres, published by Gallic in 2012. Maxime Chattam was the tenth bestselling author in France in 2011.
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.
