Murder isnt always ugly. Aime 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 Blville a festering stew of grudges, corruption, and small-town rot ready to make a killing.

It’s a game shes played 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 and the game turns on her. 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.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2026
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Pages: 92
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1529977282
ISBN 13: 9781529977288