A really excellent suspense novelist -- Stephen King. After the award-winning Brigade Criminelle trilogy of Irene, Alex and Camille, the French author returns with a deliciously dark tale of obsession, betrayal and revenge. Daily Express A scorching, serpentine novel ... Lemaitre's skill with suspense shines from every page, supported at every turn by an elegantly constructed plot complete with elements of noir that would make even James Ellroy proud. -- Geoffrey Wansell Daily Mail. Absorbing and disturbing ... the Psycho-based denouement is extraordinary. -- Marcel Berlins The Times. BLOOD WEDDING is agonisingly suspenseful ... it twists and turns with grace and verve to reach a blistering conclusion -- Declan Hughes Irish Times Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss Independent.

Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature before becoming a novelist. He was awarded the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger, alongside Fred Vargas, for Alex. In 2013 his novel Au revoir l -haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award.