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Under the Channel

Under the Channel

by Gilles Petel

Translated by Jane Aitken and Emily Boyce

Published by: Gallic Books Limited

Imprint: Gallic Books

240 Pages, 5.00 x 7.00 in

Paperback
9781908313669
Published: March 2015

$15.95

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When the body of a Scotsman turns up on board a Channel Tunnel train at the Gare du Nord, Parisian detective Roland Desfeuillères finds himself in charge of a murder investigation. This inter-city tale of changing identities is no ordinary crime novel.

Gilles Pétel was born and raised in Dunkirk. After several years teaching abroad, he published his first book in 1996. He is the author of five novels.

Emily Boyce is a translator and editor. She was shortlisted for the French Book Office New Talent in Translation Award in 2008, the French-American Translation Prize in 2016, and the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2021. She lives in London.

Jane Aitken is a publisher and translator from the French.

'Gilles Pétel unfurls the twists and turns of his deceptively simple tale with unwavering mastery' Livres Hebdo

'Not so much a crime novel as a collision, or even a collusion, between detective and victim ... unexpected in the direction it took and somewhat utopian in the finale it reaches ... very nicely balanced in its story telling' Shots Magazine

'Flecks of wit, and a singularly unexpected outcome' Raven Crime

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