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The literary crime novel is a hard nut to crack. But I'm pleased to say that newcomer Anne-Sophie Brasme's debut, Breathe, manages to satisfy both camps - the literary intelligentsia who think 'plot' is a dirty word, and the ordinary Joe Punter who just wants a page-turner of a story. In Brasme's book, we eavesdrop on nineteen-year-old Charlene Boher as she recounts the tale of how she ended up imprisoned for life. Her story - part diary, part confessional - starts innocently enough when she befriends a girl called Sarah and finds in her a soulmate who shares her solitary teenage lifestyle. But when Charlene falls for new boy Maxime, Sarah's jealous nature comes to the fore in unexpected and frightening ways. In Charlene's mind, she has only one choice - to kill her best friend. Breathe is a deceptively simple story told in uncompromisingly honest detail. Events leading up to the murder are described in the sort of matter-of-fact way that not only adds to their impact (the reader guessing what is to come) but shows just how disturbed the mind of Charlene really is. We know her, even if we don't understand her.

Mark Campbell

Breathe

Anne-Sophie Brasme

Phoenix, £6.99, 978-0753820360




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