{"product_id":"9781250045546","title":"The Circle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside the house, his teacher lies dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut he claims to remember nothing... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac, Classics professor Claire Diemar has been brutally murdered. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if that weren't disturbing enough, Servaz receives a cryptic e-mail indicating that Julian Hirtmann, the most twisted of all serial killers, is back…and hitting a little too close to home. With death and chaos surrounding the small university town in Southern France where he was once a student and where his daughter is now enrolled, Servaz must act quickly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of detectives Irene Ziegler and Esperandieu, Servaz will have to uncover a world of betrayal and depravity to connect the dots between these gruesome murders that keep re-opening wounds from his past. After the success of \u003ci\u003eThe Frozen Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernard Minier plunges readers once again into a perfectly constructed, dark and oppressive atmosphere, driven foreward by a gripping plot, pushing the limits of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034271465712,"sku":"9781250045546","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250045546_p0.jpg?v=1763761264","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250045546","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}