Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Brydon, James, 1980- author.

Title The moment before drowning : a novel / James Brydon.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2018]
©2018

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC BRYDON, J    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F BRYDON, J.    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Mysteries  NEW MYS BRYDON    Check Shelf
Description 239 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved murder committed the previous winter. A local teenage girl was killed and her bizarrely mutilated body was left displayed on the heathland in a way that no one could understand. His investigations draw him into the dark past of the town, still haunted by memories of the German occupation. As he tries to reconstruct the events of the murder, the violence of this crime and his recollections of Algeria intertwine, threatening to submerge him."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Death -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
Collective memory -- France -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
Algeria -- Fiction.
Brittany (France) -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) (OCoLC)fst01736451
Collective memory. (OCoLC)fst01739814
Detective and mystery stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00891515
Murder -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01029788
Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354086
Teenage girls -- Death. (OCoLC)fst01145422
Algeria. (OCoLC)fst01205459
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
France -- Brittany. (OCoLC)fst01211633
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9781617756252 (hardcover)
1617756253 (hardcover)
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español