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Biographical note
Cloé Mehdi was born in 1992. She started writing in college to make the time pass faster. There followed Monstres en cavale, her first novel, which received the 2014 Beaune prize. Nothing Is Lost was awarded the 2016 Polar Student prize, the 2017 Dora Suarez prize, the 2017 Mystère de la critique prize, the Blues & Polar prize, the Thousand and One Black Leaves prize. Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.<p><strong>A Sunday Times Crime Club Pick of the Week</strong></p>
<p>“An 11-year-old boy witnesses the toxic fall-out of a disastrous police identity check in which a teenager called Saïd is killed. An unflattering and upsetting picture of France today.”</p>
The Sunday Times
<p>“This pitch-dark French noir explores the aftermath of violence and the questions still unanswered in the wake of a teen’s murder by police… Mehdi’s writing conjures the best of French noir, and reminds us why the French named the genre.”</p>
CrimeTime