The Frozen Dead, Bernard Minier
The Frozen Dead, Bernard Minier
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The Frozen Dead

Author: Bernard Minier

Narrator: Elijah Alexander

Unabridged: 18 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/26/2014

Synopsis

The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylums's director uses, and then greatly alarmed when she realizes that drugs are disappearing. Commandant Martin Servaz can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there is something disturbing about this crime that he cannot ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum is found on the corpse...and a few days later the first human murder takes place.

About Bernard Minier

Bernard Minier grew up in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. He had a career as a customs official before publishing his first novel, The Frozen Dead, in 2011. The novel has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered critical acclaim as well as several literary prizes in France. Minier lives in the Essonne, south of Paris.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

The action is set in southern France in the Pyrenees, bordering on Spain (where the author grew up). This is what I call an environmental novel. The high mountains and glaciers; the almost-constant snow, the cold, wind, freezing rain, fog – all are as important as any character in the novel. In that......more

Goodreads review by Justo

3.5/5 Estrellas Pues me ha parecido un libro bastante interesante, bien escrito, con una ambientación espectacular en un entorno invernal pirenaico (St Martin de Comminges), que hace que el frío te cale hasta el tuétano. Los personajes me han parecido lo mejor de la novela. El inspector Servaz, muy bi......more

Goodreads review by The Shayne-Train

I won't lie, there were times when I had a hard time with this book. I even came close to putting it down and moving on to something else once or twice. "But Shayne," you say, "four stars means that you really liked it. Did you fucking forget how to properly rate a book?" No, I goddamn didn't, voice......more

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