Twenty Minutes of Silence
Hélène Bessette
In an opulent villa near the English Channel lives a family. The father has a safe, a spanner, a candle and a maid called Rose.
The Adversary
Translated by Linda Coverdale
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ABOUT THE BOOK
On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting…
With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
DETAILS
- Author
- Emmanuel Carrère
- Original language
- French
- Translated by
- Linda Coverdale
- First published
- 2000
- Collections
- Books in Translation
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- This edition
- July 2017
- Pages
- 191
- ISBN
- 9781784705800
- Language
- English
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