Carnage

A tense, original New York-based thriller from one of France’s foremost crime writers.

8.34am. Fourteen people were dead. Twenty-one were wounded, some permanently. Hundreds would be scarred forever by what they had seen. Outside, the world was waking up. To start another day.

When Lieutenant Lamar Gallineo of the 13th Precinct is called to the scene of a massacre at a high school in Harlem, he is faced with an apparently motiveless crime. But this is to be only the first school shooting…

A seasoned New York detective is called to investigate a high school shooting in this gripping crime fiction novel.

'Violent and atmospheric' Bookgeeks

When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school, Lamar, a New York detective for twelve years, is called to the scene.

A student, aged seventeen, has shot everyone in his path before shooting himself. Having collected all the evidence, Lamar reconstructs the blood-soaked morning of the killer.

Ten days later, a second massacre occurs at a school in Queens. Once more, a student kills multiple victims before turning the gun on himself. A new massacre occurs elsewhere. Three sets of killings in three weeks, all the same with the perpetrators committing suicide. It isn't just a coincidence...