About the Author
BERNARD MINIER grew up in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. He had a career as a customs official before publishing his first novel, The Frozen Dead, in 2011. The novel has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered critical acclaim as well as several literary prizes in France. Minier lives in the Essonne, south of Paris. You can sign up for author updates here.
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The Frozen Dead
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Epigraph
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
Prologue
Friday
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2
3
4
5
7
8
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Saturday
10
11
12
Interlude 1
13
14
15
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Sunday
17
18
Monday
19
20
21
22
Interlude 2
Tuesday
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27
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29
Interlude 3
Wednesday
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31
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Thursday
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Friday
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Interlude 4
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Epilogue
Acknowledgments
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE CIRCLE. Copyright © 2012 by XO Éditions. Translation copyright © 2015 by Alison Anderson. All rights reserved.
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First published in France under the title Le Cercle by XO Éditions
Previously published in Great Britain under the title A Song for Drowned Souls by Mulholland Books, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company
First U.S. Edition: October 2015