Dead Horsemeat - Softcover

Manotti, Dominique

3.75

68 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190514735X ISBN 13: 9781905147359

Publisher: Arcadia Books, 2007

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Dominique Manotti is among the raciest and most incisive writers in France today. Dead Horsemeat is an inside account of horse-racing and drug-trafficking, political intrigue and criminal intent, public corruption and human decency. As the May '68 generat

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About the Author:

Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. Rough Trade (1900850877, GBP7.99), her first novel, was awarded the top prize for best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers' Association and Book of the Year in The Independent by Amanda Hopkinson and Joan Smith; while Dead Horsemeat was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.

Review:

'By turns bleak, transgressive, sexy and quite literally unputdownable. They're so seedy, very, very French (in a good way), often very funny and so tightly plotted that you can read them in an evening. And Arcadia's translations have been brilliant. It's a joy, for me at least, to enjoy the luxury of devouring such exuberant, taut and engrossing crime writing.' - Anne Beech, Pluto Press MD, (Reading for Pleasure, The Bookseller) 'Manotti has Ellroy's gift for complex plotting, but she has a grip on the economics, politics and social history which marks her as special ... good generic crime fiction, with le flair in abundance' - TLS 'Dodgy company takeovers, blazing horses and international drug cartels, Dead Horsemeat is EuroCrime at its best.' - Pete Ayrton, Serpent's Tail MD'Manotti effortlessly handles a fiendishly complicated plot. Her characters are fully rounded and believable. And she is funny, accurately reflecting the gallows humour that people who frequently encounter horror often resort to as a defence.' - The Daily Telegraph'Mean, lean in-your-face depiction of cutting-edge police work...' - Peter Millar, The Times 'A sophisticated French police procedural, which packs more into 175 pages than some American or British novels twice its length.' - The Sunday Telegraph

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