Tanguy Viel

• Jan-2003
• / Mystery
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Absolute Perfection of Crime is a novel with all the originality, toughness, and surprises of the best black-and-white film noir. Setting: A small French seaside town. Characters: A group of old crooks, on the verge of retirement. Plot: One final cou...

• Aug-2008
• / Suspense
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"A book you read in a single sitting" (Le Magazine Littéraire), here is a "story worthy of Hitchcock" (Paris Vogue), from one of the most promising French novelists to emerge since Michel Houellebecq. Bestselling French wunderkind Tanguy Viel, heir ...

• Dec-2018
• / General Fiction
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This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murd...

• Jun-2021
• / Psychological Suspense
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"Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions about the narrative structure it is deploying." -- The French ReviewIn The Disappearance of Jim Sulli...

• Mar-2024
• / General Fiction
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In this shrewd, timely novel with the allure of old-school noir, an aging boxer and his daughter fight back against political corruption and sexual abuse.At 40, the great boxer Max Le Corre was enjoying a renaissance, back at the top of the ticket af...