July 2, 2014
MarkBernstein.org
 

Alex

Alex
Pierre Lemaitre

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(July 2, 2014)

This interesting French police procedural does a fine job of keeping its detectives (and the reader) off balance. We begin with an abduction on a busy Paris street, and then things get weird. Structurally ambitious, but those ambitious cannot be discussed without spoiling the mystery.