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Best International Crime Novel of the Year - Crime Reads / Lit Hub

This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.

In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what brought him to this desperate point: his divorce, his son's acting out, layoffs at his job, and, above all, Lazenec's dazzling project for a seaside resort. The temptation to invest all of your severance pay in a beautiful apartment with a view of the sea is great. But still, it has to be built.

In this subtle, enthralling novel, Tanguy Viel examines not only the psychology of a crime, but also the larger social ills that may offer its justification.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 03/12/2019
ISBN: 9781590519332
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/19/2018
Library Journal 03/01/2019 pg. 119