Louis in his grey Kiton suit, Stefano Ricci tie, Weston brogues Armand dressed from a clearance sale at a charity shop. And more importantly the clever plotting means that nothing is quite as it seems.Įven when you’re not altogether with it, seeing Louis and Armand standing next to each other is a trip. There is quite a lot of violence in this book, and a particularly unpleasant description of an unspeakable act, which is perhaps necessary to explain the plot.īut despite this it would be a worthy winner of the International Dagger, because the team of detectives are interesting characters. On the one hand you’ve got a kid who’s a rich as Croesus, on the other a miser worthy of Scrooge McDuck. It’s a hell of an odd team though, thinks Camille. Camille taking the situation very personally has no leads and wonders why has she been kidnapped and by whom? As the vital hours go by the desperate race to find Alex before she too is killed becomes frantic. Camille has returned after a lengthy absence from duty, trying to recover from not surprising severe traumatic stress, after his pregnant wife Irene was kidnapped and found murdered so this is a particularly difficult assignment for him.
Commandant Camille Verhoeven, a detective of Napoleonic stature 4’11’, is given the investigation.
She is forced to strip and put into a wooden case, a cage, situated in an abandoned warehouse.
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