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Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too many", Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new police squad, working on solving old cold cases.

Though relieved to still have a job, Capestan is not overjoyed by the prospect of her new role. Even less so when she meets her new team: a crowd of misfits, troublemakers and problem cases, none of whom are fit for purpose and yet none of whom can be fired.

But from this inauspicious start, investigating the cold cases throws up a number a number of strange mysteries for Capestan and her team: was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds? And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years previously?

Translated from the French by Sam Gordon

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9780857055774
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 226 g
Dimensions: 201 x 157 x 21 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

This summer's crime read - Cosmopolitan

You will not want to tear yourself away ... Extremely original - Jean-Louis Debré, Le Point

A scintillating read ... we are already hooked - Elle

From her first novel, Sophie Hénaff proves that she can really pull the trigger - Paris Match

Original and amusing, it's French noir with a sly smile. - The Times

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“Well - paced and witty ”

This novel is almost comical at times. Anne Capestan and her 'Awkward Squad' are effectively a band of police personnel who should have been fired, but were protected by red tape. There's the aptly... More

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“Very entertaining!”

The Awkward Squad is the first book in the Awkward Squad/Anne Capestan series by French author, Sophie Hénaff. It is translated from French by Sam Gordon. After a six-month suspension for being a little too... More

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