
Surface
Olivier Norek(Author)
Open Borders Press
Will be published approx. on 3. September 2026
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-9195033-3-2 (ISBN)
Description
Police capitaine Noemie Chastain has everything: a coveted position in Paris, a devoted team and a loving partner. In an instant, she loses it all. On a dawn raid in a grimy Parisian banlieue, in an instant, she loses it all. Shot by the drug dealer she was about to arrest, she is left with serious scars on her face and deeper, longer-lasting damage to her psyche. Pushed out of her job in Paris by superiors concerned that her disfigurement would damage team morale, abandoned by her boyfriend, she is posted to a police department that serves six sparsely populated communes in the back of beyond, in the southern department of Aveyron. Her brief: to report back on the police department and give head office an excuse to close it altogether. But when the body of a child floats to the surface of the man-made lake that hides the buried past of the village of Avalone, Capitaine Chastain is forced to take the opportunity to prove her worth and win back her job in Paris. To solve the case, she must lead a team more used to tracking down stolen combine harvesters - handsome Lieutenant Valant, the mayor's son; ex-Drug Squad Brigadier Bousquet; and green local boy 'Bambi' - through the twists and turns of what has become a murder investigation and uncover the dark secrets that have haunted the village for twenty years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9195033-3-2 (9781919503332)
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Olivier Norek served as a humanitarian aid worker in the former Yugoslavia prior to his career in the French police force. His crime fiction has sold millions of copies and won many prizes. His latest novel, The Winter Warriors, won three major French literary prizes, has been sold in eighteen languages, and is being made into a feature film.
Nick Caistor's translations include works by Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marse and Isabel Allende. He has contributed to the Guardian and the TLS and was for many years Latin America editor for the BBC World Service. His translation of Mendoza's An Englishman in Madrid won the Prix du Livre Europeen.
Nick Caistor's translations include works by Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marse and Isabel Allende. He has contributed to the Guardian and the TLS and was for many years Latin America editor for the BBC World Service. His translation of Mendoza's An Englishman in Madrid won the Prix du Livre Europeen.