Showcase - Article 353 by Tanguy Viel translated from the French by William Rodarmor

If you've been visiting the blog lately you'll notice I've been showcasing a lot of books published by this incredible indie house called Other Press. They offer such a diverse selection of both fiction and non-fiction some homegrown but many like today's showcase translated.
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ISBN-13:  978-1-59051-934-9
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 3-12-2019
Length: 160ppTranslated from the French by William Rodarmor
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Overview:

This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.
In a depressed town on France’s northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what brought him to this desperate point: his divorce, his son’s acting out, layoffs at his job, and, above all, Lazenec’s dazzling project for a seaside resort. The temptation to invest all of your severance pay in a beautiful apartment with a view of the sea is great. But of course, this is only a plan in the works—or is it?

In this subtle, enthralling novel, Tanguy Viel examines not only the psychology of a crime, but also the larger social ills that may offer its justification.