I wrote two other crime novels after IRENE, which did not involve detectives, but when I found myself confronted by Alex, and indeed every time I needed a police officer, Camille was always knocking on my door, in a fairly friendly way. Camille was not meant to be a recurring character.
The seeds for this final book are planted in the previous volumes – did you plan the trilogy in its entirety at the beginning? This novel does not resemble its predecessors, because the narrative is very different, but I imagine a reader who has followed this character since the beginning would want to know how his story ends. How does Camille differ from its predecessors Alex and Irene?ĬAMILLE is the final part of a trilogy, describing the destiny of a man (Camille) through those of three women (Irene, Alex and Anne). We’ve long wanted to talk to Lemaitre, there’s been a big, gaping hole in the Intel Interviews until now, so we’re delighted that he’s agreed to talk to us about Camille, why he’s not nice to his characters and how, if you’re looking for advice about writing, you’re on your own… With Alex he won the CWA 2013 International Dagger Award and he was awarded the 2013 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, for Au revoir là-haut, his epic about World War I.
Lemaitre worked for many years as a teacher of literature and now devotes his time to writing novels and screenplays. Lemaitre is the author of Alex, Irene and most recently concluded - or perhaps hasn’t - his trilogy about Verhoeven, with Camille. We recently reviewed Camille - and, if you’re tall enough to reach the mouse, you can click here to see it. We like Pierre Lemaitre here, but you may have guessed that - we like his tightly-plotted, quick-witted novels featuring the diminutive detective Commandant Camille Verhoeven.
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