The clues are in the news

Title: Irene

IT’S NOT very often than an author wins significant prizes in the same year for crime and literary fiction, but 2013 was something of an annus mirabilis for French writer Pierre Lemaitre.

Alex, the first of his crime novels to be translated into English and it won the 2013 Crime Writers’ Association ‘International Dagger’ award (he was joint-winner with his French compatriot Fred Vargas).