SINGLEMINDED - Softcover

Helene De Monaghan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190200213X ISBN 13: 9781902002132

Publisher: CRIME TIME, 1999

Synopsis

Francois is a Parisian lawyer who is in love with his myopic traineeZaza, and decides that the only way to obtain his freedom is to get rid of his wife Liliane. And he doesn;t mean divorce. His tunnel visioned attempts on the lovely Liliane's life fail spectacularly, and as his blackly comic campaign move from an initial lack of success to a spectacular lack of success, we wonder how innocent is Liliane? And her doting Mamy? And what's the story with her half-brother Gilles? In the end no-one will be more surprised by the results of his efforts than Francois.

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Murder is easy - if you're SINGLEMINDED
"...I exclude knives, razors or any other sharp instrument which would involve both an appropriate knowledge of human anatomy and a very steady hand, qualities I do not possess..."

François is a Parisian lawyer, who is in love with his myopic trainee Zaza, and decides that the only way to obtain his freedom is to get rid of his wife Liliane. And he doesn't mean divorce... His tunnel-visioned attempts on the lovely Liliane’s life fail spectacularly, and as his blackly comic campaign moves from an initial lack of success to a spectacular lack of success, we wonder how innocent is Liliane? And her doting mother Mamy? And what’s the story with her half-brother Gilles? In the end no-one will be more surprised by the results of his efforts than François... An engrossing and cruelly funny novel by the French Queen of Crime: surprise follows surprise all the way to an indescribable twist ending! - Hélène de Monaghan is one of the leading French authors of crime fiction, and has won many awards for fiction, her plays and her television work. - Readers of Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith should enjoy SINGLEMINDED, as it embodies many of the characteristics of their kind of crime fiction. - She has been called ‘The French Patricia Highsmith’. - SINGLEMINDED is one of the best known crime novels in France, and many critics consider it to be one of the best ‘classical’ crime novels of all time. "...If you’ve missed the sharp, ironic wit and style of Patricia Highsmith, meet Hélène de Monaghan, a French writer expert at the sting in the tail (and elsewhere for that matter...)"

Synopsis

A darkly comic crime novel in which Francois, a Parisian lawyer, is in love with Zaza, his trainee, and he decides that the only way he is going to be able to secure his freedom is by killing his wife, but meets with a series of failures to execute the crime.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRIME TIME
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190200213X
• ISBN 13: 9781902002132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160