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A tightly plotted police procedural which makes good use of its Parisian setting and great cast of characters. A real page-turner. Definitely recommended. --The Bookbag
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Laure Sarraute, a young model soon to be the face of a distinguished fashion house, features on the cover of Exposé, the country's top scandal-sheet, posed seductively in some of the most expensive lingerie money can buy. Room service in a luxurious Left Bank hotel stumbles upon the original: her corpse, exactly as captured in the photo, sent to Exposé by the murderer.
The case is assigned to Franck Guerin, a national security specialist seconded to homicide duty under the eye of a maverick magistrate, Yves de Chaumont. Used to a harder, darker world, Franck finds himself following the victim's exquisite underwear to its manufacturer and to Wasp-Waisted, a subscriber-only magazine dedicated to images of young women in erotic lingerie whose visual universe seems to echo that of the Exposé photo.
Other victims follow. Under the discreet and cool-headed direction of Yves de Chaumont, Franck attempts to reconstruct the ties that bound victims and suspects in a universe of desire, deceit, beauty and profit. What he does not know is that someone is following him, photographing his every move, preparing to add him to a collection of images.
The investigation takes Franck all across Paris: from the luxury hotels of the Left and Right Banks to seedy lodgings on the city's outer fringe; from the clustered skyscrapers of La Défense to the bohemian disorder of the Ecole des Beaux Arts; from the designer boutiques of the Avenue Montaigne to the strip clubs of Pigalle. As each location reveals how it is linked to the others, it becomes clear that every great city breeds the crimes it deserves.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Death and Detecting in Paris,
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This review is from: Wasp-waisted (Paperback)
Crime is not usually my genre, but Wasp-waisted was fantastic! Barrie has an excellent command of prose, capturing the sights and culture of Paris into words with the skill of a budding artist. Franck, Wasp-waisted's central character, is a loveable, caffine-chugging gumshoe, a down-to-earth (but, I thought, rather romantically drawn) detective with his mind firmly on the job. The sensual descriptions of the crime scenes was something novel and interesting that gave an already rather rich story just that little bit more zest and spice to make it extra speacial and the conclusion was more than satisfactory...
Would it be possible to persuade Mr Barrie to provide a sequel, or perhaps a prequel detailing the much elluded to 'Corsican incident'? This reader would be MUCH indebted!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Atmospheric roman policier,
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This review is from: Wasp-waisted (Paperback)
As a novel it benefits from a bit of reflection, and the fact that you are thrown into Guerin's life very much at the deep end jars, but by Timothy this is good. It's the sort of book that left on your desk after a lunchtime indulgence calls out to you, and you feel obliged to stifle its siren song in a briefcase or drawer (not at all connected to the titillating pseudo erotic novel cover at all) and hanker to revisit it. As crime fiction it's different, engaging, well written, and deserving of all the attention it can possibly get.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting debut,
By riverwillow (Greater London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wasp-waisted (Paperback)
This seems to be the author's debut novel and it promises very good things for the future. Franck Guerin is an interesting and attractive central character who, following the mysterious Corsican Incident (small clues to which are scattered throughout the book), has been suspended from the French counter-terrorism squad, the DST, and is now working for the Brigrade Criminelle in Paris. Like Rebus's Edinburgh, Guerin's Paris is very much a character and one in which ancient and modern live side by side, North African immigrants jostle up against the rich and privileged of avenue Montaigne. The murders are unusual and intriguing, the plot is well constructed and following the dénouement still hangs together well - you would be surprised how many crime novels fail at this final hurdle. This is an eminently engaging and readable novel - I read it in one sitting - and I do hope that there is more to come.
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