The Prix Goncourt-winning noir author is back with a novel that begins with a murdered dog and a missing child in the final days of 1999. The life and conscience of a young boy in the aftermath of a terrible crime are depicted in this masterful title, translated by Frank Wynne.

Pierre Lemaitre has won several literary awards, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt, for his novel Au revoir là-haut, published in English as
The Great Swindle. He also won the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger twice, for Alex and Camille, two books in his breakthrough crime trilogy featuring Commandant Camille Verhoeven.