Three Days and a Life

ReviewLonglisted for the CWA International Dagger Award, 2018French crime maestro Pierre Lemaitre continues his upward movement in Three Days and a Life . . . This is literary crime writing of some distinction: a heady melange of Aldous Huxley and Robert Goddard.The GuardianLemaitre may be the best current French writer of crime fiction.Financial TimesThoughtprovoking and unsettling, Three Days And A Life is another work of genius from a master storyteller at the top of his game.The Daily ExpressLemaitre is a skillful writer, employing his words carefully to sketch Antoines feelings and fears so fervently that we desperately want to protect the child. Wonderful at creating grey protagonists, Lemaitre captures human frailty and reality, while simultaneously questioning our moral certainties.Times of IndiaNo one is writing quirkier thrillers than Lemaitre, who gets inside the head of his unhinged protagonist with wicked delight while capturing the madness of the modern world. French favorite Lemaitres novel, about a preteen on whom fortune smiles in the most devious ways after he accidentally kills a little boy, is a feverish, wickedly entertaining work.Kirkus ReviewsThree Days and a Life is excellent: A heartbreaking and masterful portrait of a mans life, marked by a childhood mistake.Crime by the BookLemaitre has outdone himself. If you like great psychological novels, Three Days and a Life should be on your nightstand. Read it, savor, and read it again.Andrew Gulli, Strand MagazineLemaitre is surely Frances most elegant and imaginative crime writer.The TimesTaut character study and a vivid portrayal of an isolated community.France Magazine[Three Days and a Life] tells a tale of murder and how the great loss of a small boy can affect a whole village . . . You will feel disdain for Antoines determination to never reveal his hasty act that caused a death. Also, youll breathe a sign of admiration over his bold look on life.Book LoonsLemaitre magnificently manipulates the readers compassions and succeeds in dropping several remarkable plot twists that surprisingly help alter the initial events. Three Days and a Life is a heartbreaking and darkly disturbing psychological pageturner written with simplicity and creativity.New York Journal of BooksAn intense, characterdriven tale about how guilt over one senseless act can impact the rest of your life.Always with a BookA complex experiment in the social infrastructure of a small French town, right and wrong, and the rawness of the family unit . . . A great book that generates a lot of thoughtprovoking questions.Daily RepublicThree Days and a Life was a fun, fast suspense novel that I very much enjoyed. I would definitely read more books by Pierre Lemaitre, who is known for getting into the minds of killers. Thats exactly what he did with young Antoine, leaving the reader with a killer you couldnt help but care about.Novel VisitsProduct DescriptionIn 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelveyearold Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his reliefand ongoing shamehe is never suspected of any connection to the childs disappearance.But the boys 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 fiance 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.Meanwhile, the newly discovered body of Antoines childhood victim means that the case has been reopened, and all of his old fears rush back. With the gravitational pull of his hometown strengthening its grip, Antoine may finally be forced to confront his