Framed
by Tonino Benacquista

Cover Design: Killian Strong

Crime Paperback Original

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Antoine's life is good. During the day he hangs pictures for the most fashionable art galleries in Paris. Evenings he dedicates to the silky moves and subtle tactics of billiards, his true passion. But when Antoine is attacked by an art thief in a gallery his world begins to fall apart. His maverick investigation triggers two murders – he finds himself the prime suspect for one of them – as he uncovers a cesspool of art fraud. A game of billiards decides the outcome of this violently funny tale, laced with brilliant riffs about the world of modern art and the parasites that infest it.

Author Information
Tonino Benacquista, born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, a train guard on the Paris-Rome line...

The Translator
Adriana Hunter's work has included two novels by Agnès Desarthe, Beigbeder's vitriolic attack on the world of advertising, '£9.99', and Catherine Millet's explicit autobiography, 'The Sexual Life of Catherine M'.

Praise for Framed
''The French, I'm glad to say, have never lost their love for 1930s style noir crime stories...'' Shots Magazine

''Screenwriter for the award-winning French crime movie The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Tonino Benacquista is also a wonderful observer of everyday life, petty evil and the ordinariness of crime...'' The Guardian