Hannelore Cayre

A taut and darkly funny account of an unusual woman and her voyage into the underground ecosystem of crime and justice in contemporary France. The French bestseller La Daronne Now a major film starring Isabelle Huppert Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid French-Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is...

An unforgettable new novel by the award-winning author of the international French bestseller The Godmother. She had been dead now for four days and I had become rich. Unimaginably rich. Blanche de Rigny has always considered herself the black sheep of the family. And a black sheep on crutches at that. But it turns out her family tree has branches...