Camille Verhœven, #1

Irne - Pierre Lemaitre

Irene
Bok av Pierre Lemaitre
For Commandant Verh/ven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him - his every move is headline news. When he discovers that the killer has killed before - that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname...The Novelist...With both men in the public eye, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner - whoever has the least to lose...
Kriminalkommissarie Camille Verhoeven väntar barn med sin fru Irène. Han får i uppdrag att lösa mordet på två unga, brutalt styckade prostituerade tjejer som hittas i en lägenhet i Paris. När han kommer mördaren på spåren så kidnappas hans fru - av samme mördare - och Verhoeven måste hitta henne snabbt för mördaren har signalerat att han tänker mörda henne också.

En spännande bok som blir mer och mer rafflande ju längre in man kommer i den.