Camille by Pierre Lemaitre (4.2🌟)

Camille is a crime thriller, third book in the Brigade Criminelle or Camille Verhoeven trilogy. As with Irene, the crime case in this novel involves Commandant Verhoeven directly.

This time we follow a woman, Anne, who by chance witnesses an arm robbery and is brutally beaten by one of the criminals. She survives but is disfigured, fearing for her live. Camille is notified about the incident and requests to be assigned to the case though he only deals with murders,  not robberies. What his bosses don't know is that Camille is romantically involved with Anne. Obviously leading a case on her attack is in breach of the police rules. To add to the complications,  Camille finds it hard to identify the robbers let alone find them.

Opinion: again this is another Lemaitre novel that I devoured in a few days. The crime and mystery were well thought and the twist near the end brilliant. The ending left me a bit shocked and sad, but I think it was a good one.

I got my edition from my local library. It is a hardback, published in 2015 by Quercus. It has 316 pages.