The Lost and the Damned

The Times Crime Book of the Month

Author: Olivier Norek and Nick Caistor Series: The Banlieues Trilogy

A suspenseful new police procedural from a serving French police officer and writer on the hit series Spiral

Introducing Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on Spiral and an award-winning, million-copy bestseller.

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A suspenseful new police procedural from a serving French police officer and writer on the hit series Spiral

Introducing Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on Spiral and an award-winning, million-copy bestseller.

Description

"Slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted. It will make you cry out (for more)" - Mark Sanderson, The Times

"Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, Independent

Introducing Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on Spiral and an award-winning, million-copy bestseller.

A corpse that wakes up during the autopsy.

A case of spontaneous human combustion.

There is little by the way of violent crime that Capitaine Victor Coste has not encountered in his fifteen years policing France's most notorious suburb - but nothing like this.

As he struggles to find a link between the cases, he receives a pair of anonymous letters highlighting the fates of two women whose deaths were never explained - two more blurred faces among the ranks of the lost and the damned.

Why were their murders not investigated? Coste is not the only one asking that question. Someone out there believes justice is best served on a cold mortuary slab.

What readers are saying about The Lost and the Damned

You can see the similarities with the TV series Spiral, which can only be a major positive!

A hard hitting and gritty French crime read that makes an impact.

A great thriller, sardonic, humorous, dark.

I loved this book. Well written and had an authentic feel to it. A complete page turner.

Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

Critic Reviews

“Norek displays the mastery and assurance of an old hand. - Figaro.The French crime-writing revelation of the year. - R.T.L.The suspense is sustained until the final page. A masterful crime novel. - L'Express.”

Norek displays the mastery and assurance of an old hand. - Figaro.

The French crime-writing revelation of the year. - R.T.L.

The suspense is sustained until the final page. A masterful crime novel. - L'Express.

About the Author

Olivier Norek served as a humanitarian aid worker in the former Yugoslavia, before embarking on a eighteen-year career in the French police, rising to the rank of capitaine in the Seine-Saint-Denis Police Judiciare. He has written six crime novels, which have sold a million copies in France and won a dozen literary prizes.

More on this Book

A suspenseful new police procedural from a serving French police officer and writer on the hit series Spiral A corpse that wakes up on the mortuary slab. A case of spontaneous human combustion. There is little by the way of violent crime and petty theft that Capitaine Victor Coste has not encountered in his fifteen years on the St Denis patch - but nothing like this.Something unusual is afoot, and Coste is about to be dragged out of his comfort zone. Stranger still, anonymous letters addressed to him personally have begun to arrive, highlighting the fates of two women, invisible victims whose deaths were never explained. Just two more blurred faces among the ranks of the lost and the damned.Olivier Norek's first novel draws on all his experience as a police officer in one of France's toughest suburbs - the same experience he drew on as a writer for the hit TV series Spiral . Translated from the French by Nick Caistor