Fatale

Murder isn''t always ugly. Aimee is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool head and a taste for chaos, she arrives in the backwater town of Bleville - a festering stew of grudges, corruption, and small-town rot - ready to make a killing. She''s played this game before: stir up trouble, pit the locals against one another, then disappear with blood on her hands and money in her pocket. But this time, something breaks. Aimee lets someone in - and the game turns personal. Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the crime novel into a weapon of satire and stylish mayhem. Fatale is his bloodiest, funniest, and most brilliantly unhinged work: a riot of revenge, farce, and gleeful destruction. PRAISE FOR JEAN-PARICK MANCHETTE ''Manchette was was Le Homme... We must revere him now and rediscover him this very instant. '' James Ellroy ''Manchette is Camus on overdrive... He deserves much the same attention'' James Sallis ''Manchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know, and with good reason: his novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one'' Duane Swierczynski

About the author

Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) was a crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator. In 1971 he published his first novel and went on to establish a new genre of French novel, the neo-polar. Vintage Classics publishes his Fatale, Nada, No Room at the Morgue and Skeletons in the Closet.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Manchette Jean-Patrick
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.02.2026
• EAN: 9781529977288
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-7728-8
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Women, France, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Classic crime, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Noir, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century, Novella (Short Novel)