The Frozen Dead by Bernard Minier
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Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens.Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff.
On the same day the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high-security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylum's director uses, and then greatly alarmed when she realizes that drugs are disappearing from within the fortified institution while someone seems to be slipping out at night.
Commandant Martin Servaz, a charismatic city cop from nearby Toulouse fond of quoting Latin, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there's something disturbing about this crime that he can't ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum, a highly intelligent former prosecutor, accused of killing and raping several women, is found on the horse carcass . . . and a few days later the first human murder takes place. A dark story of madness and revenge seems to be unfolding.
Servaz and his colleague, the mysterious Irene Ziegler, must use all their skill to solve the terrifying mystery and best one of the most fiendish and clever opponents they could ever imagine.
Bernard Minier (Béziers, 1960) pasó su infancia en Montréjeau, al pie de los Pirineos, donde ha ambientado buena parte de sus libros. Estudiante frustrado de medicina, trabajó para el Servicio de Aduanas de su país antes de dedicarse por completo a la literatura. Es autor de Bajo el hielo, El círculo, No apagues la luz, Una maldita historia y Noche (los tres últimos editados por Salamandra). Con la publicación del primero en 2011 -escogido en 2014 por The Sunday Times entre los cincuenta mejores thrillers y novelas negras del siglo XXI y base de la serie de televisión homónima- se reveló como la última gran sensación del thriller psicológico francés. Minier es el único escritor que ha sido distinguido en dos ocasiones con el Premio Polar en el Festival de Cognac. También ha recibido el Premio de l ́Embouchure y el Premio de las Bibliotecas y las Mediatecas Cognac, entre otros. Su obra se ha traducido en veinte países y se han vendido más de dos millones de ejemplares.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781250045539 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250045533 |
| Title | The Frozen Dead |
| Author | Bernard Minier |
| Series | Commandant Martin Servaz |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Minotaur Books |
| Year published | 2014-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 482 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |