Rough Trade

Description

Translated from the French by Margaret Crosland & Elfreda Powell. The massmarket edition of the French crime novel that was awarded the top prize for best crime story of its year by the French Crime Writers Association and has since become a huge hit in the UK as part of Arcadia's EuroCrime series. Set in the heart of the rag-trade district in Paris over a single month, it takes readers down a dark path of sinister events that centre around the murder of a young Thai woman, but take in every element of sleazy city life along the way.

Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. Rough Trade, her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association. Her other books include Lorraine Connections and Dead Horsemeat.

"Set in Le Sentier, the district of Paris where expensive clothes are made in sweatshops, it uses real events - the struggle by foreign workers to get legal status - as the setting for an extraordinarily vivid crime novel." - Joan Smith, Books of the Year, Independent