Dead Horsemeat

'By turns bleak, transgressive, sexy and quite literally unputdownable. They're so seedy, very, very French (in a good way), often very funny and so tightly plotted that you can read them in an evening. And Arcadia's translations have been brilliant. It's a joy, for me at least, to enjoy the luxury of devouring such exuberant, taut and engrossing crime writing.' - Anne Beech, Pluto Press MD, (Reading for Pleasure, The Bookseller) 'Manotti has Ellroy's gift for complex plotting, but she has a grip on the economics, politics and social history which marks her as special ... good generic crime fiction, with le flair in abundance' - TLS 'Dodgy company takeovers, blazing horses and international drug cartels, Dead Horsemeat is EuroCrime at its best.' - Pete Ayrton, Serpent's Tail MD'Manotti effortlessly handles a fiendishly complicated plot. Her characters are fully rounded and believable. And she is funny, accurately reflecting the gallows humour that people who frequently encounter horror often resort to as a defence.' - The Daily Telegraph'Mean, lean in-your-face depiction of cutting-edge police work...' - Peter Millar, The Times 'A sophisticated French police procedural, which packs more into 175 pages than some American or British novels twice its length.' - The Sunday Telegraph