The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau

From the author of the Man Booker-longlisted His Bloody Project, a debut novel that is both a noir masterpiece and a captivating psychological thriller.

Manfred Baumann is a loner. He has always lived in the nondescript French town of Saint-Louis. Shy and awkward, a man of habit, he spends his days working in the local bank and his evenings in the drab Restaurant de la Cloche where he can surreptitiously observe Ad le Bedeau, its sullen but alluring waitress. Until, one day, Ad le vanishes.