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Blood Wedding

Pierre Lemaitre

3.96 · Rating details · 7,654 ratings · 1,162 reviews

Sophie Duguet--young, successful, and happily married--thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she'd parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she'd said and done, too. And when she was detained by the police f ...more

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Nov 26, 2016 Brenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

What a crazy, fascinating book this was! I should have realized, because this is Pierre Lemaitre, after all.

First, we have Sophie. She is batsh*t crazy. She loses things, misplaces things, is exhausted but can't sleep, loses blocks of time. Eventually her life is totally in the gutter and she's lost everything. This section of the book totally confused me. I didn't know what the heck was going on, but I persevered.

Second, we have Frantz. The further I read this section, the clearer things became ...more

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Apr 11, 2016 Paromjit rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, netgalley, crime-fiction, thriller

This is an extraordinary, dark and disturbing psychological thriller. It is a creepy and twisted story, focusing on the slowly disintegrating world of nanny, Sophie Duguet. She appears to be losing her mind, losing time, losing objects and behaving in inexplicable and bizarre ways. Arrested for shoplifting, she has no recollection of this. Oh, yes, and people are being murdered around her with the finger pointing to her as the perpetrator. In a blind panic, Sophie goes on the run in an attempt t ...more

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Sep 11, 2016 Aditi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: my-reviews, paris, mystery, hachette, friends, family, france

“He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.”

----Confucius

Pierre Lemaitre, an award winning French author, has penned a riveting and brain twisting psychological thriller, Blood Wedding that narrates the story of a mid aged recently widowed woman who faces memory lapses and so when, one morning, she finds the child, whom she babysits, murdered in his bed with a shoelace, from her very own shoes, tied around his neck, she cannot even once remember what happened the previou ...more

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Feb 23, 2018 Selene rated it it was ok

Shelves: first-reads, psychological-thriller, crime-spree, dark, mystery, suspense

2.75 stars

A nanny’s tragic discovery. A stalker’s very disturbing diary entries. This one story read like two separate books and felt disjointed until the halfway point.

The plot was interesting but I wasn’t fully invested in Sophie or Frantz, and never adjusted to the writing style. The descriptive murders held my interest but the lack of details in other major areas made this story feel very unrealistic, choppy, and strange.

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Aug 04, 2016 Janet rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Ever since reading Irene, Alex and Camille I have loved Lemaitre's works so I was really excited when I saw this book on NetGalley. My thanks to all those involved for the copy.

Where do I start ..,..?!! I mean seriously.... this book is twisted, seriously twisted. We meet a young woman called Sophie. Currently working as a nanny she becomes more and more anxious as she feels that she is losing her mind. Things are happening to her and she doesn't know how. Constantly feeling tired, losing things ...more

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Dec 29, 2017 Janelle Janson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017, from-publisher-or-author, favorites, mystery-suspense-thriller

Thank you so much Quercus for providing my free copy of BLOOD WEDDING by Pierre Lemaitre - all opinions are my own.

Sophie Duguet is an au pair for a six-year-old boy, who she discovers dead while in her care. She is frantic and scattered as she flees from the scene. She has a history of blackouts and doesn’t remember bits and pieces of her life. She empties her bank account, changes her appearance and identity. And that’s just the beginning!

The book starts out from Sophie’s perspective and she ...more

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Jun 26, 2016 Paul rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-thrillers

Blood Wedding – A Wonderfully Twisted Thriller

Pierre Lemaitre’s Blood Wedding has been translated in to English and we have been served a wonderfully delicious twisted psychological thriller. This is yet another example of why Lemaitre is leading a new wave of thriller writing in France that has lifted the genre to a new level in France. This is a brilliantly twisted psychological thriller, told in the first person and is a pulsating read.

Sophie is a nanny who feels as if she is falling to piec Blood Wedding – A Wonderfully Twisted Thriller

Pierre Lemaitre’s Blood Wedding has been translated in to English and we have been served a wonderfully delicious twisted psychological thriller. This is yet another example of why Lemaitre is leading a new wave of thriller writing in France that has lifted the genre to a new level in France. This is a brilliantly twisted psychological thriller, told in the first person and is a pulsating read.

Sophie is a nanny who feels as if she is falling to pieces, she is haunted by things that she is unable to remember, and has visions of her past. None of which fill the blanks in memory, she feels as if she is living in a parallel world she does not understand. When Leo, the child she cares for, she finds dead with her own shoe laces, she does not remember anything about killing him.

She decides to run, she just cannot explain how she came to murder Leo or how, so begins he life on the run as a wanted criminal. When a stranger comes to her aid as she tries to run, why does she end up dead, especially as she has no memory of why or how it happened. She just cannot seem to explain to herself what is happening when her side of the story does not match the mounting evidence against her.

Frantz is somewhat obsessive about things that he does, he likes to be in control, and know everything about his subject, while recording it in his diary to aid his knowledge. He really is a stalker extraordinaire he likes to involve himself in every aspect of his subject’s life without them knowing. He is not afraid to kill or use drugs if that means he can control his subject, he likes to be close but not close enough for them to know they are being observed.

What Blood Wedding delivers in bucket loads is revenge, obsession, murder, mental illness and manipulation, all the things that can seem as if you are in the midst of a mental health breakdown. What the reader gets is a clever psychological thriller, that is packed full of tension and suspense never giving a clear signal of how the story will end.

What I enjoyed about Blood Wedding is the clever structure in the book, with excellent characterisation that aids the complex story on so many levels. The two competing characters of Sophie and Frantz, in equal amounts deliver fear of what we may become, the obsessive nature and how we deal with mental health issues.

Blood Wedding is a finely balanced thriller that leaves you on edge all the way through, with its twists and turns that delivers some explosive scenarios. This is a wonderfully crafted psychological thriller that takes us on a journey in to a breakdown, recovery, and asks questions about mental health and obsessive behaviour. This really is a gripping read that draws the reader and keeps them hooked throughout the book, Pierre Lemaitre really knows how to write thrillers of the highest order.

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Aug 24, 2017 Svetlana rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-thriller-psychological

I really enjoyed this book and I will definitely be picking up other books by this author.

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Oct 12, 2016 ReadsSometimes rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget.

One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story is no match for the evidence piled against her.

Her only hiding place is in a new identity. A new life, with a man she has met online.

But Sophie is not the only one keeping secrets . . .

Once I got properly started with this book, there was no way ...more

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Oct 18, 2017 Tan Markovic rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

Deeply dark and disturbing. One of those books that will stay with you for a good while.

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Aug 03, 2016 Raven rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Having been blown away by Lemaitre’s Brigade Criminelle trilogy, Irene, Alex and Camille featuring diminutive detective Camille Verhoeven, we now have the compelling standalone Blood Wedding, which further serves to demonstrate the sheer brilliance of Monsieur Lemaitre.

Once again, Lemaitre has produced a book that proves troublesome to review in terms of potential plot spoilers. Reducing the story to a linear description, Blood Wedding focuses on a young woman, Sophie who finds herself implicate Having been blown away by Lemaitre’s Brigade Criminelle trilogy, Irene, Alex and Camille featuring diminutive detective Camille Verhoeven, we now have the compelling standalone Blood Wedding, which further serves to demonstrate the sheer brilliance of Monsieur Lemaitre.

Once again, Lemaitre has produced a book that proves troublesome to review in terms of potential plot spoilers. Reducing the story to a linear description, Blood Wedding focuses on a young woman, Sophie who finds herself implicated in two murders, and going on the run, seeks to conceal her identity further by entering into a marriage with a man she meets online, giving her the security to explore the reasons for her attributed guilt, and come to terms with her tangled past. But this is Lemaitre, known for slips and tricks which play with the reader’s perception, and as the plot twists and turns, turns and twists, we are consistently wrong-footed and deceived. In the best tradition of Patricia Highsmith and Alfred Hitchcock, Lemaitre slowly reveals the plight of a woman in a confused psychological state, seeking to make meaning of the situation she finds herself in, whilst having possibly having been manipulated by person or persons unknown. Consequently, as each previously unknown detail of Sophie’s plight is revealed, with pinpoint precision timing, I would challenge you all to resist the impetus to keep reading, and reading, and reading…

Another real strength of Lemaitre’s work to date, is the depth and realism that he consistently instils in his female protagonists, and I’m always mightily impressed by male writers who achieve this so convincingly. Without a shadow of a doubt, Sophie is seen to run through the whole gamut of human emotion from her initial bewilderment, self-questioning and threat of incarceration, to her own critical analysis of her situation, and a growing steadfast resolve and path of clear-thinking to extricate herself from her now under threat personal freedom. Into the mix comes Frantz, her unwitting potential husband, who possesses a degree of self-knowledge that maybe Sophie is not so enamoured with their match as he is, but resolves to make the best of it regardless, seemingly to bring a degree of solidity to his own troubled past. I will delve no deeper into their attendant character traits at this point, but suffice to say there are more revelations afoot. This combination of extremely well-developed characters, and the reliance of the two of them to drive forward the intricate and exceptionally well plotted story arc, shows a clear degree of authorial skill and deftness of touch that eludes many other writers. As a crime reader, precise plotting, the control of suspense, and believable characterisation lay at the core of my reading pleasure, and Lemaitre achieves this beautifully throughout. The plot twists are in no way reliant on the suspension of disbelief, or clumsily wrought, leading to a genuinely intriguing, and utterly enthralling, example of psychological suspense. The novel is once again beautifully translated by Lemaitre regular, Frank Wynne, which captures all the nuances, and linguistic tone of the original French, further adding to the reader’s enjoyment.

There is little left to say regarding Blood Wedding, as my admiration for Lemaitre has surely been noticed already, but drawing on a well worn adage, I would simply say, if you only read one thriller this summer, do make sure it’s this one. Highly recommended.
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Jun 14, 2017 Maureen DeLuca rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is a SOLID 4 star read and I'm adding 1 full star for this book was a great psychologically manipulative book. My head is still spinning from reading it! I have to say some of the things that go on here are a bit far fetched - but strange , weird and far fetched is what Pierre Lemaitre writing is all about !

You will get to meet Sophie. She is - well flipping going crazy and is crazy. She loses time, things, dates and happens to wake up at times finding dead bodies around her and having no ...more

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Nov 13, 2019 Carol rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-crime, owned-book, french

***3.5 Stars*** An interesting story of obsession that requires a willing suspension of disbelief.

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Jul 10, 2016 Crime by the Book rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

THIS BOOK. I read it straight through on a long train ride, and I absolutely COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. Engrossing, written in a truly unique style, and full of some truly disturbing manipulations and deceptions. The story has a big twist halfway through that I was able to predict, but I was completely shocked and drawn into the way the author develops on that plot twist. Excellent, excellent read - a truly unique piece of crime fiction. Full review to come on CBTB! ...more

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Jun 26, 2016 Rachel Hall rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Blood Wedding can only be classed as a sheer tour de force, a novel so unsettling and dark that it sticks its claws in from the opening pages and keeps raising the stakes, ratcheting up the tension and toying with the readers emotions until the heart-stopping climax. Despite being so tantalisingly twisted and the undeniably macabre tone, Blood Wedding is a compulsive read that is impossible to draw your eyes away from until the closing words.

Told through a third person narrator, we first meet na
Blood Wedding can only be classed as a sheer tour de force, a novel so unsettling and dark that it sticks its claws in from the opening pages and keeps raising the stakes, ratcheting up the tension and toying with the readers emotions until the heart-stopping climax. Despite being so tantalisingly twisted and the undeniably macabre tone, Blood Wedding is a compulsive read that is impossible to draw your eyes away from until the closing words.

Told through a third person narrator, we first meet nanny Sophie Duguet, an educated and formerly married lady in her thirties, ever available in her capacity as carer for the six-year-old Léo, son of the Gervais family. Yet Sophie is a woman haunted, running from an existence and a former life which convinced her that she was descending into madness. Memory lapses, mislaid objects and complete periods of time of which she has no recall mean that within three months of taking the position she is on the brink of insanity, waking to find the child in her care strangled with her very own shoelaces. The weight of evidence is damning and pretty soon Sophie is fleeing for her life, living on her wits and then the full extent of her history becomes apparent and we learn that she has sunk this low before. In another life she was happily married, an out-going and genial woman with a flourishing career and a baby on the way, only to lose it all. First simple forgetfulness, then blackouts and delusions, from losing her car to shoplifting and with the body count racking up in her wake, none of this is new to Sophie.

"She will never be in a place where she can feel safe, there will never be a place where she can give her name; Sophie no longer exists, she is a fugitive, someone scared to death, living like an animal, focused only on survival; the antithesis of what it means to live."

Lemaitre skilfully presents Sophie's cunning plan, in short, a series of cash in hands jobs, never remaining in one location for any period of time until she has the funds accumulated to afford an illegal birth certificate then find an unsuspecting man, marry, move abroad and divorce. When she meets Frantz, dull-witted and unquestioning enough to fall into her hands he seems to fill the bill perfectly.

The second part of the novel is a diary account of Frantz, dating back to 2000, and revealing that he clearly is not quite the innocent party in proceedings. As he presents his view of Sophie's descent into madness the reader begins to understand that he had rather more of a hand in it and isn't finished with her yet. When Sophie and Frantz meet, their intentions may be very different, but the deliciously moreish battle of iron wills is a triumph. This is survival of the fittest and the stakes are life or death. Lemaitre measures his pace, delivering enough twists to give readers an insatiable appetite for the final unraveling. When Sophie and Frantz collide, what Lemaitre evidences is just how dependent on each other they have allowed themselves to become; that this will be the undoing of one of them becomes clear. Just who is the real victim is never made clear, but unquestionably some form of justice is unleashed.

Who is really the most manipulative player in this unsettling thriller? Sophie, Frantz or perhaps most truthfully, Pierre Lemaitre who leaves readers hanging on his every word and ensures we run the whole gamut of human emotions. That a novel can have such a powerful effect and unsettle the reader so much is largely due to the construction but also how much depth Lemaitre furnishes his central characters with, allowing readers to think they have their measure and revealing that the wool has been pulled well and truly over your eyes! As with The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson, the full extent of just what you have witnessed does not dawn until the closing pages and will leave readers high as a kite and with a rictus grin on their faces! As with all the best suspense authors, the true import of what has gone before only dawns in the closing moments and will leave readers reeling and clamouring for more from the pen of Pierre Lemaitre.
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Sep 04, 2016 Karen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, netgalley, review-books, ebook

We've all done it - lost the car keys and then found them again. Misplaced the notebook, torn the place apart, then found it weeks later exactly where we thought it should have been. We've had emails go missing, meetings reset, appointments changed. There have been times when most of us have contemplated the possibility that we're starting to go slightly mad. Which is exactly the reaction that Sophie has when weird things start happening to her. Although the fuzziness in her head, the strange lo We've all done it - lost the car keys and then found them again. Misplaced the notebook, torn the place apart, then found it weeks later exactly where we thought it should have been. We've had emails go missing, meetings reset, appointments changed. There have been times when most of us have contemplated the possibility that we're starting to go slightly mad. Which is exactly the reaction that Sophie has when weird things start happening to her. Although the fuzziness in her head, the strange losses and reappearances, and the peculiar mistakes are nothing at all compared to blacking out and killing somebody. Something that happens to her more than once.

The first part of the book concentrates on Sophie's life - from the way that she goes into hiding when the young boy in her care is found dead, through to the manner in which she re-invents herself is realistically portrayed. There's something matter-of-fact about the ruthlessness with which she hides out, she's so capable in the way that she drops from sight, the way she hides her secrets. At the same time she's in such doubt about what has happened to her, racked with guilt over her "madness", that she's a tricky character for a reader to connect with. She's present for so many aspects of her story, and yet somehow oddly absent for others.

The explanation, when it starts to reveal itself isn't necessarily going to be a total surprise for readers, but that's not the point, and whatever you might think it is, there will definitely be more to the outcome. It's very much about Sophie and her survival, it's about ruthless pursuit and determination. It's claustrophobic and intense, and whilst the early part of Sophie's story may have a slightly languid feel to it, that changes rapidly.

BLOOD WEDDING is one of those psychological thrillers that's finely balanced between confusion and clarity, disconnection and absorption, obsession and real affection. Starting out in a slow and calculated manner, rapidly shifting into something that's compelling and absolutely absorbing BLOOD WEDDING is gripping and very cleverly constructed.

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Sep 04, 2016 Margaret rated it it was ok · review of another edition

The writer has "a thing" for mentally ill people but he is totally ignorant of their behavior. So if someone is crazy, one is capable of everything including sophisticated planning of crimes, huge cruelty , manipulative manners, patience, luck of ethics , unbelievable determination and so on! The story is full of holes in the plot, and almost everything that could never happen in real life, or in a decent constructed thriller! Why the two stars? Because it was very readable and clever escalated ...more

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Sep 20, 2016 Keith Currie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

People close to Sophie die…and Sophie is left holding the knife. Is she mad? Is she bad? Is she guilty? In an attempt to escape arrest, she marries a man she has met through an internet dating service…but is Frantz all he seems?

Almost unbearably tense at times, this elegant and accomplished thriller really is a page turner, as well as an exploration of voyeurism, human manipulation and revenge. Excellent.

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Jan 28, 2020 E. H. Nathasia rated it really liked it

This book is crazy I tell you. Crazy! I wouldn't want to read it again crazy. I mean, yes it's Pierre Lemaitre, I should've expect it but still, I didn't expect how deeps**t crazy it is. ...more

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Jan 20, 2021 Esther rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-books

I remember reading another book from Pierre Lemaitre and really loving the plot. I also remember it was really dark and haunting, in a way that thrillers sometimes can be. I received this book as a birthday gift, and I've been curious to read it for a long time. The best part about this book was the plot. I think it was genially done and as you can see I rushed through. I read the book in 4 days!

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May 29, 2016 Marianne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Blood Wedding is the second novel by French author, Pierre Lemaitre, and the fifth to be translated into English. It was first published as Robe de Marié in 2009 and is flawlessly translated from French by Frank Wynne. Young widow, Sophie Duguet is working as a nanny in Paris when she wakes up to find her charge, six-year-old Léo Gervais, murdered. While she can’t remember doing it, she begins to believe she must have done, and flees before her terrible crime is discovered.

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Sep 11, 2017 Aaron Nash rated it it was amazing

Man i have never felt such anger after finishing a book. The ordeals that Sophie endures throughout this novel are totally exhausting. You feel for her, you really do. This is a nasty, in your face, piece of fiction, with one of the most evil antagonists ive come across. Yes you have to suspend your belief slightly at times and yes it does get slightly repetitive during the middle, but Lamaitre wants you to feel for Sophie and my God by the end you do. Ive read two books now by him and gave both ...more

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Sep 15, 2017 Michelle rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: c-w-mars, favorites

Whoa! This is an absolutely crazy psychological thriller. So well written. Be warned: this is a vicious tale. Lots & lots of nasty stuff being done. I had no idea what was going on in the beginning but Pierre Lemaitre ties it all together in the end. Needless to say I am incredibly impressed and will definitely seek out more of his work.

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Mar 18, 2017 Bímbala rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Dec 29, 2017 H.A. Leuschel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a very dark psychological thriller with some tough scenes but an excellent twisty ending.

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May 09, 2016 Tracy Fenton rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was so excited to see Pierre Lamaitre had written a standalone psychological thriller after the exceptional Verhoeven Trilogy and was delighted to receive an ARC from the publishers and Netgalley. I started the book and admit to being very confused at the beginning and after a third of the way through I actually gave up. However a few weeks later several members of THE Book Club on Facebook (TBC) started saying how brilliant it was and due to my severe case of FOMO I thought perhaps I should g ...more

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Dec 27, 2020 Laura Peden rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, libby-audio

An extremely well written psychological thriller! It’s dark & twisty. 4.5/5

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Dec 10, 2016 Cleopatra Pullen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2016-favourites, netgalley, psychological-thriller, crime

We first meet Sophie Duguet when she is working as a nanny. She has problems with her memory which include lack of concentration and a complete absence of memory at times combined with problems sleeping she has to write things down to remember them. She loses things constantly and spends her free time blankly watching the television. One night when Madame Gervais, the mother of her charge returns home late, Sophie sleeps over and in the morning on going to wake Léo, she, finds him dead. Not a na We first meet Sophie Duguet when she is working as a nanny. She has problems with her memory which include lack of concentration and a complete absence of memory at times combined with problems sleeping she has to write things down to remember them. She loses things constantly and spends her free time blankly watching the television. One night when Madame Gervais, the mother of her charge returns home late, Sophie sleeps over and in the morning on going to wake Léo, she, finds him dead. Not a natural death either. Sophie remembers nothing but an item belonging to her is there on the body and she flees.

Yes, I hear you. I’ve read other books that feature memory loss, and it seems like an easy device to create tension when really none exists. This was part of my issue with this part of the book, that and seemingly random violence and a young woman whose actions I didn’t understand at all, however much the author tried to make me sympathise with her, I struggled. However we know a little about Sophie; although only young, she has been recently widowed, her ever-patient husband dying in a car accident. This combined with her memory problems and her guilt over the increasingly annoying incidents that this provoked has worn her down further. She is clearly a vulnerable young woman, but… she killed a child, whether she remembers it or not!

Sophie’s face is plastered across the papers – she is wanted for murder and she knows that the police will be seeing if she contacts her dear father or her best friend. Sophie is resourceful and decides to move far away, to a place where she has no connection. She assumes new identities, works cash in hand and after many low-paid jobs and moving neighbourhoods decides that she will start again by getting married. She has three months to do the deal, and so she goes on the internet to find a man.

Despite me being extremely wary of the underlying premise and being slightly sickened by some of the violent scenes and not overly fond of imagining life on the run, Pierre Lemaitre’s writing is stunning. I felt Sophie’s panic and could picture her at the train station with her newly dyed hair trying to buy a ticket, while desperate not to do anything that would mean she stood out from the crowd. The author had me there at Sophie’s side, witnessing her as the third person who narrates the novel, so convincing was his portrayal, I believed in Sophie, she was real.

In part two we meet Franz through his diary written before Sophie’s descent into hell. He also documents Sophie’s problems and it as it this point that Pierre Lemaitre’s incontrovertible skill as a creator of one of the best psychological thrillers I’ve ever read becomes clear. It was one of those books where I felt the author really had got one over on me. He constructed his central characters knowing that he was making even this fairly suspicious reader, look in every direction, except the right one, and he keeps it up right until the bitter end.

I am not going to say anymore except if you pick up this book, stay with during the first section - it is worth it, I promise. I’m off to see what other books by this author are going on my list. ...more

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Dec 01, 2019 Nicki rated it really liked it · review of another edition

After the death of the six year old boy that she is looking after and with no memory of what happened Sophie goes on the run.She gets herself a new identity and a new life with a man that she met online but Sophie is not the only one who is keeping secrets.

To be honest when I first started reading this book I struggled to connect with the story and the Sophie character and gave up on the book but the other day I decided to give it a second chance.I admit that although I still found it difficult ...more

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Jul 18, 2017 Denise added it · review of another edition

Well -- WOW! Starting out slowly, building with a relentlessness that keeps the reader glued to the pages, and finishing with a bang makes this a suspense thriller that I won't soon forget.

Sophie Duguet goes from zero to full on crazy over a matter of months. When she awakens to find that the boy she nannies is dead, she runs. Though she changes her appearance and secures a new identity, she can't seem to escape this particular madness. No matter what she does, or where she goes, she is losing h ...more

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Pierre Lemaitre is a French novelist and screenwriter. He is internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.

His first novel that was translated into English, Alex, is a translation of the French book with the same title, it jointly won the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2013.

In November 2013, he was awarded t ...more