Rough Trade
$24.14
- Paperback
266 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2003
Summary
This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris’s rag trade. One spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop. Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris - the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits, police officers’ secret lives. A …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781900850872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1900850877 |
| Author: | Dominique Manotti, Elfreda Powell, Margaret Crosland |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 266 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Eurocrime |
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“Set in Le Sentier, the district of Paris where expensive clothes are made in sweatshops, it uses real events - the struggle by foreign workers to get legal status - as the setting for an extraordinarily vivid crime novel.” - Joan Smith, Books of the Year, Independent
About The Author
Dominique Manotti
Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. Rough Trade, her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association. Her other books include Lorraine Connections and Dead Horsemeat.
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