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"Frédérique Molay is the French Michael Connelly." —Jean Miot, former head of Agence France Presse (AFP)

Winner of France's prestigious Prix du Quai des Orfèvres prize for best crime fiction, named Best Crime Fiction Novel of the Year, and already an international bestseller with over 150,000 copies sold.

There's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, La Crim'. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky—a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love story—races against the clock to solve the murders as they get closer and closer to his inner circle. Will he resist the pressure? The story grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the last page, leading you behind the scenes with the French police and into the coroner's office. It has the suspense of Seven, with CSI-like details. You will never experience Paris the same way again!

"A taut and terror-filled thriller with a lightning-quick, sinister plot." —Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author

"Ratcheting tension won't let you put the book down." —Cara Black, bestselling author of Paris mysteries

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    • Booklist

      May 1, 2014
      This entry in Molay's Paris Homicide series won France's prestigious crime-fiction award, the Prix du Quai des Orf'vres. Its hero is Nico Sirsky, head of the Paris Criminal Investigation Division, known as La Brigade Criminelle, or La Crim'. Sirsky is an endearing mixture of tortured, hardheaded cop and romantic; he falls instantly in love with an internist he visits for a suspected ulcer, valiantly flirting throughout his examination. Sirsky, the forensics team, and a seemingly ever-present criminal profiler confront the grisly murder of a young, pregnant assistant history professor at the Sorbonne, killed in her home during the day. This is followed by more murders of thirtysomething, upscale women, all of whom opened their doors to the killer, who has an agenda: he left a note at one of the early crime scenes, announcing his intention to kill seven women in seven days. He also tightens the noose around Sirsky's neck, threatening and stalking those closest to him. Molay uses meticulous police procedure and forensics to bolster gripping scenes of terror. Let's hope more installments from this series cross the ocean soon.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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