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Praise for 'The Execution': 'Unnervingly cool prose...an entertainingly urbane thriller [whose] suspense lies not in the whodunit, but in watching a perfect life unravel.' Daily Telegraph 'An impressive and sure-footed debut...Wilcken's tight, energetic prose keeps the pages turning.' Daily Mail 'Wilcken, who lives in Paris, has chosen the extremely French subject of murder and adultery...The tone, which in its fatalism could be called existential, could also, in its acceptance of the way the world and emotions work, be called wise. Through this tone and elegant patterning, "The Execution" transcends genre.' Observer 'Taut, menacing, full of sinister beguilements. And unsettlingly shrewd.' Will Eaves, author of "The Oversight"