by Mark Mills · Calmann-Lévy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702135228
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«Amagansett» is the suspense novel by Mark Mills, published by Calmann-Lévy in paperback (427 pages, in French).
In 1947, in the coastal village of Amagansett, Long Island, the fisherman of Basque origin Conrad Labarde finds the corpse of Lillian Wallace among his nets. Although the police attribute it to an accidental drowning, Conrad, who knew her, begins his own investigation that leads him to the circle of New York's nouveaux riches, where a conspiracy emerges.
Novel originally published in English in 2004, translated into French by Patricia Petit. Winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger and the Long Island Reads award.
Recommended for readers of historical thriller and mystery novels set in the years after World War II.
Mark Mills is a British writer of screenplays and novels. His first screenplay was the BAFTA-nominated short film One Night Stand starring Jemma Redgrave and James Purefoy in 1993; this won Mills a Best Screenplay' award at the Angers European First Film Festival in 1995.
