Lorraine Connection - Softcover

'Arcadia's EuroCrime series has launched a flood of continental crime solvers and killers on to an unsuspecting British market. Chief among them is Dominique Manotti, whose gritty Parisian policiers are set against real events from the past 20 years. Rough Trade was played out amid the designer clothing sweatshops of Le Sentier, a district inhabited by underpaid guest workers in the 1980s, and won the French crime writer's gong in 1995. Dead Horsemeat is a slimmer volume, written in a more experimental, impressionistic, scattergun present-tense style that conveys great immediacy' - The Times Praise for Dead Horsemeat:'By turns bleak, transgressive, sexy and quite literally unputdownable. They're so seedy, very, very French (in a good way), often very funny and so tightly plotted that you can read them in an evening. And Arcadia's translations have been brilliant. It's a joy, for me at least, to enjoy the luxury of devouring such exuberant, taut and engrossing crime writing.' - Anne Beech, Pluto Press MD, (Reading for Pleasure), The Bookseller 'Manotti has Ellroy's gift for complex plotting, but she has a grip on the economics, politics and social history which marks her as special ... good generic crime fiction, with le flair in abundance' - TLS 'Dodgy company takeovers, blazing horses and international drug cartels, Dead Horsemeat is EuroCrime at its best.' - Pete Ayrton, Serpent's Tail MD'Manotti effortlessly handles a fiendishly complicated plot. Her characters are fully rounded and believable. And she is funny, accurately reflecting the gallows humour that people who frequently encounter horror often resort to as a defence.' - The Daily Telegraph

When a cathode ray tube factory in a small French town is hit first by a strike and then by a suspicious fire, the battle for the take-over of the plant's beleaguered parent company heats up. The Lorraine factory is at the centre of a strategic battle being played out in Paris, Brussels, and Asia for the take-over of the ailing state-owned electronics giant Thomson. Accusations of foul play fly, and rival contender Alcatel calls in its intrepid head of security Charles Montoya to investigate. He soon uncovers explosive revelations and a trail of murders, dirty tricks, blackmail, and corporate malfeasance.