Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verh/ven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verh/ven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.
During November this year Crime Writers Association came up with a poll, which among other categories voted Agatha Christie as the best ever crime writer. Maxim Jakubowski, a CWA member and a celebrated crime novelist was not happy with the verdict or the choices put up in the poll. According to him, and I also believe, that although Dame Christie remains as the doyenne of crime writing, but the genre in itself has developed way beyond what s...
This book is a major hit in 2013. In Part-I, a beautiful young woman (Alex) was brutally hit and kidnapped by a middle aged man. Officer Camille, a dwarf, whose pregnant wife was abducted and murdered in the similar manner, is forced to take up the case. But Police is totally clueless. No body knows this girl….. no complaint was lodged. In the meantime the man locked Alex in a cage, where she can neither sit properly nor lie down, naked, in a deserted building. The only food she is been provi...