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      The Wretches

      by Frederic Dard
      Published
      Nov 2016
      Main Genre
      Mystery Mystery
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      160
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      Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of colour, good humour and easy living in drab 1950s Léopoldville, and soon Louise is working there as a maid. But once she is under her new employers' roof their model life starts to fall apart - painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear and a dark obsession begins to grow, which will end in murder...

      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Suspense

      Subgenres

      Amateur Sleuth Mystery Thriller

      Themes

      Noir

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