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Night - (Commandant Servaz) by Bernard Minier (Paperback)

Night - (Commandant Servaz) by  Bernard Minier (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b></b><b>The No.1 bestseller in France, <i>NIGHT </i>is the thrilling new novel from award-winner Bernard Minier.</b><b> The Commandant Servaz series <i>The Frozen Dead </i>is available now on Netflix.</b><b></b> <p/><b>A woman murdered in a church in Norway.</b><br><b>A collection of photographs on an oil rig in the North Sea.</b><br><b>A young boy in a picturesque Austrian village.</b><br><b>The three clues that suggest a serial killer has returned . . . </b> <p/> Detective Kirsten Nigaard believes the signs point to none other than Julian Hirtmann, a serial murderer on the run. She turns to Toulouse cop Martin Servaz, who has a painful personal history with Hirtmann. Servaz hunted the elusive killer for many years until the trail went cold. Now they have a chance to bring him to justice at last. <p/> But soon the pair find themselves in a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, not knowing who is chasing whom, and which of them might pay the ultimate price. <p/><b>Praise for </b><b>Bernard</b><b> Minier</b> <p/>'Over the past few years, France has produced some of Europe's most striking and original crime novelists. Bernard Minier is up there with the best' - <i>The </i><i>Sunday Times</i> <p/>'A super-accelerated version of a Hitchcock thriller, with thrills and shocks on nearly every page . . . Minier reels out lurid, quick and dirty prose, dirty enough to blacken the fingers as we read' - <i>Spectator</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A <b>super-accelerated version of a Hitchcock thriller</b>, with thrills and shocks on nearly every page--<i><b>Spectator on Don't Turn Out the Lights</b></i><br><br>A publishing <b>sensation </b>in France . . . <b>With a villain possessing the intelligence of Thomas Harris's immortal Hannibal Lecter, </b> this is great story-telling, with a creeping sense of dread that would not disgrace <b>Stephen King </b>at his best--<i><b>Daily Mail on The Frozen Dead</b></i><br><br>Bernard Minier's second novel A SONG FOR DROWNED SOULS confirms his status in <b>the forefront of crime fiction's French renaissanc</b>e . . . A <b>gripping </b>read--<i><b>The Times</b></i><br><br>Dark, deep and cerebral, but <b>the danger will almost stop your heart</b>--<i><b>Sunday Times Crime Club</b></i><br><br>Like Agent Starling in <i>The Silence Of The Lambs</i>, always two steps behind a serial killer who toys with them exactly as Hannibal Lecter did with Starling. <b>Minier's killer is every bit as compelling</b>--<i><b>Daily Mail</b></i><br><br>Minier's extravagantly plotted thrillers . . . are <b>highly readable and deliver great entertainment</b>--<i><b>Morning Star</b></i><br><br>Praise for Bernard Minier<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Bernard Minier grew up in south-west France and spent a happy childhood in the foothills of the Pyrenees before going to university in Toulouse, the town where Servaz is a policeman. He currently lives near Paris. He has received several awards for his short stories. All three novels in the Servaz series, THE FROZEN DEAD, A SONG FOR DROWNED SOULS and DON'T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, have been bestsellers in France, and his writing has been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Russian and Hungarian as well as English. He has twice won the prestigious Prix Polar at the Cognac Crime Festival.

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