The Frozen Dead
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781444732252 (1444732250)
Publish date: August 1st 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 476
Edition language: English
Once in a while I land myself with a book that helps me in reassuring myself that all is well with crime writing and THE FROZEN DEAD by Bernard Minier was one of those. All along I have maintained that what I look for most in a Mystery or a thriller is the plot. Most of the times my ratings depend u...
Martin Servaz is not happy to be called out to the remote village of Saint-Martin-des-Comminges when a mutilated body is discovered at the local hydroelectric plant. He's even less happy when he finds out that everyone's been scrambled for a horse. The man who owns the horse is rich and connected an...
Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens.Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a froz...
I have not been able to find a really good mystery thriller in quite sometime, so it was quite a pleasure to come across this book.The story is mostly based around the life of Commandant Servez, a Toulouse city cop, who is investigating not only the murders of two men, but a very expensive horse as ...