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Benjamin Malaussene is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, the redoubtable doyenne of publishing, he has finally had enough. After one row too many with her, he resigns, only to have Zabo offer him a starring role. All he has to do is impersonate the world's best-loved but hitherto anonymous author, J.L.B.But things are never simple for Malaussene and his extended family of misfits and chancers. Soon he is in deep, faced with the theft of a manuscript, a frenzied readership, his private life in disarray, and a spate of connected murders that threaten to destroy Vendetta Press.Write to Kill is the third of four crime novels set in the Belleville quarter of Paris. The Fairy Gunmother and The Scapegoat are also available from Harvill.
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A charming and mysterious novel, sure to grip the imagination from cover to cover.
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That's it. No more fending off death threats from rejected authors. No more being the fall guy. Benjamin Malaussène has had it as an editor at the Vendetta Press. Queen Zabo, the Boss, has other ideas. Sales of the best-selling but anonymous author J.L.B. are dropping off. What better way to revive them than by revealing his identity? And who better to impersonate him than Malaussène? But with his baby sister about to marry the 58-year-old head screw of a prison, the manuscript missing, bullets flying and a homicidal maniac on the loose, brilliantly comic mayhem is the order of the day.
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