Very Long Engagement

Japrisot,Sebastien

Vintage Classics

The task of finding the killer of a beautiful young woman found sprawled in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, who would rather play hide-and-seek with his son than cat and mouse with a murderer

The Sleeping Car Murders

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin??Books

Racing through France in a stolen car, Danielle finds evidence of her having been in places she cannot remember visiting and being hunted by someone she does not know

The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and a Gun (Penguin Crime Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Recovering from plastic surgery after being badly disfigured in a fire that killed her friend, a young woman desperately attempts to restore her identity when amnesia has made it impossible for her to decide if she is actually her friend or herself

Trap for Cinderella

Made aware at the age of nine that she is the product of a gang raping of her mother, a young woman uses her sexual wiles to lure her husband into a deadly plot against the men whom she believes to be the rapists

One Deadly Summer

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement tells the story of a young woman's search for her fiancé, whom she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

A Very Long Engagement: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Picador

In January 1917, five wounded French soldiers, hands bound before them, are brought to the front at Picardy by their own troops, forced to climb from the trenches onto the narrow strip of no-man's-land that separates the French and German armies, and left to die in the cross fire. Their brutal punishment has been hushed up for over two years when Mathilde Donnay, a young, wheelchair-bound woman from a small town in the South, begins a relentless quest to find out whether her fiance, officially "killed in the line of duty," might still be alive. As the fiercely independent and wonderfully imaginative Mathilde combs the country for information about the other four soldiers - a farmer from the Dordogne, a street hustler from Marseilles, a Parisian trade unionist, and a carpenter - an elaborate web of deception and coincidence emerges. Struggling against all reason and counsel, Mathilde carries her search to its end, and in discovering what happened to the five men, she comes also to an understanding of the horrors, and the acts of kindness, brought about by war. A runaway bestseller in France and the winner of the 1991 Prix Interallie, A Very Long Engagement is an engrossing mystery, a playful study of the different ways one story is told, and a moving and incisive portrait of life in France during and after the First World War.

A Very Long Engagement

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

In 1919, a young wheelchair-bound woman in France begins a quest to find out if her fiance, supposedly killed in the line of duty two years earlier, might still be alive

Plume

A classic noir suspense novel back in print. Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

The task of finding the killer of a beautiful young woman found sprawled in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, who would rather play hide-and-seek with his son than cat and mouse with a murderer

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Very Long Engagement

The Sleeping Car Murders

The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and a Gun (Penguin Crime Fiction)

Trap for Cinderella

One Deadly Summer

A Very Long Engagement: A Novel

A Very Long Engagement

A Very Long Engagement

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

The Sleeping Car Murders