{"product_id":"the-unwanted-dead","title":"The Unwanted Dead","description":"Product Description\n\n\n\n'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR\n\n\n'Terrific'\n SUNDAY TIMES, Best Books of the Month\n\n'A thoughtful, haunting thriller' MICK HERRON\n\n'Sharp and compelling' \nTHE SUN\n\n* * * * *\n\n\nParis, Friday 14th June 1940.\n\nThe day the Nazis march into Paris, making headlines around the globe.\n\nParis police detective Eddie Giral - a survivor of the last World War - watches helplessly on as his world changes forever.\n\nBut there is something he still has control over. Finding whoever is responsible for the murder of four refugees. The unwanted dead, who no one wants to claim.\n\nTo do so, he must tread carefully between the Occupation and the Resistance, between truth and lies, between the man he is and the man he was.\n\n\nAll the while becoming whoever he must be to survive in this new and terrible order descending on his home...\n\n* * * * *\n\n'Lloyd's Second World War Paris is rougher than Alan Furst's, and Eddie Giral, his French detective, is way edgier than Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther ... Ranks alongside both for its convincingly cloying atmosphere of a city subjugated to a foreign power, a plot that reaches across war-torn Europe and into the rifts in the Nazi factions, and a hero who tries to be a good man in a bad world.\nPowerful stuff.'\n\nTHE TIMES\n\n'Excellent ... In Eddie Giral, Lloyd has created a character reminiscent of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther, oozing with attitude and a conflicted morality that powers a complex, polished plot.\nHistorical crime at its finest.'\n\nVASEEM KHAN, author of\nMidnight at Malabar House\n\n'\nMonumentally impressive ...\nA truly wonderful book. If somebody'd given it to me and told me it was the latest Robert Harris, I wouldn't have been surprised.\nEddie Giral is a wonderful creation.'\n\nALIS HAWKINS\n\n'\nA terrific read - gripping and well-paced. The period atmosphere is excellent.'\n\nMARK ELLIS\n\n'\nThe best kind of crime novel: gripping, thought-provoking and moving. In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too.'\n\nKATHERINE STANSFIELD\n\n\n\nReview\n\n\nA thoughtful, haunting thriller ―\nMick Herron\n\nA police story with a difference, sepia-painted to match the time and circumstances, with a convincing background and atmosphere, skilfully drawn to encompass the fates of the lead characters as if you were there by their side. Well-written and carefully researched, it is one to stay with you long after you have finished reading ―\nAdrian Magson, SHOTS Magazine\n\nLloyd's Second World War Paris is rougher than Alan Furst's, and Eddie Giral, his French detective, is way edgier than Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther. Powerful Stuff ―\nSunday Times Crime Club\n\n\nTerrific ―\nThe Sunday Times\n\nLloyd's Second World War Paris is rougher than Alan Furst's, and Eddie Giral, his French detective, is way edgier than Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther . . . Ranks alongside both for its convincingly cloying atmosphere of a city subjugated to a foreign power, a plot that reaches across war-torn Europe and into the rifts in the Nazi factions, and a hero who tries to be a good man in a bad world.\nPowerful stuff. ―\nThe Times\n\nExcellent . . . In Eddie Giral, Lloyd has created a character reminiscent of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther, oozing with attitude and a conflicted morality that powers a complex, polished plot.\nHistorical crime at its finest. ―\nVaseem Khan, author of Midnight at Malabar House\n\nSuch a powerful and morally nuanced\n crime novel ... Both a gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation. ―\nAndrew Taylor\n\n\nThe best kind of crime novel: gripping, thought-provoking and moving. In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too. ―\nKatherine Stansfield\n\nWartime Paris rises from the page with its seedy bars, gang-ridden train yards, lonely apartments, and across everything falls the terrible","brand":"Orion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39666265784405,"sku":"9781409190271N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/c532ee64-7e9e-4750-817b-abca54af9963.jpg?v=1644253186","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-unwanted-dead","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}