Carnage

A seasoned New York detective is called to investigate a high school shooting in this gripping crime fiction novel. When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school, Lamar, a New York detective for twelve years, is called to the scene. A student, aged seventeen, has shot everyone in his path before shooting himself. Having collected all the evidence, Lamar reconstructs the blood-soaked morning of the killer. Ten days later, a second massacre occurs at a school in Queens. Once more, a student kills multiple victims before turning the gun on himself. A new massacre occurs elsewhere. Three sets of killings in three weeks, all the same with the perpetrators committing suicide. It isn't just a coincidence...

Maxime Chattam was born in 1976 in Val-d'Oise. At the age of 23 he enrolled himself onto a criminology course. His first thriller, 'The Fifth Reign', appeared under his Maxime Williams pseudonym. It received the Fantasy Novel award at the Gerardmer literary festival. He followed it up with a successful trilogy ('The Soul of Evil', 'Evil' and 'In Darkness') and the three-part 'Truth Cycle' novel.