About the Author

Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. Rough Trade, her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association. Her other books include Lorraine Connections and Dead Horsemeat.

Reviews

"Set in Le Sentier, the district of Paris where expensive clothes are made in sweatshops, it uses real events - the struggle by foreign workers to get legal status - as the setting for an extraordinarily vivid crime novel." - Joan Smith, Books of the Year, Independent