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Three days and a life / Pierre Lemaitre ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

by Lemaître, Pierre, 1951-

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Maclehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, 2017.

Missing children -- Fiction.

Dogs -- Fiction.

Homicide -- Fiction.

France -- Fiction.

9781681441771 (trade pbk.)

9781681441788 (hc.)

Trois jours et une vie.

Alternate title:

3 days and a life

199 p. ; 24 cm.

"In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with a fiancée and a promising future. On a rare trip home to the town he hates and fears, Antoine thoughtlessly sleeps with a beautiful young woman from his past. She shows up pregnant at his doorstep in Paris a few months later, insisting that they marry, but Antoine refuses. Meanwhile, the newly discovered body of Antoine's childhood victim means that the case has been reopened, and all of his old fears rush back. Then the young woman's father threatens Antoine with a paternity test--which would almost certainly match the DNA found on the dead child's body. Will Antoine finally be forced to confront his crime? And what is he prepared to do to keep his secrets buried in the past?"--From publisher.

Suspense fiction.

Psychological fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

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