Franck Thilliez

Franck Thilliez is a French crime novelist, born on 15 October 1973 in Annecy and raised in Mazingarbe, in the Pas-de-Calais. An engineer by training, he worked in IT in Dunkirk before turning to writing. His first novel, Conscience animale, came out in 2002. Train d'enfer pour Ange rouge (2004) introduced Inspector Franck Sharko, and La Chambre des morts (2005), winner of the Prix SNCF du polar and filmed in 2007, introduced Lucie Henebelle. The two investigators first work together in Syndrome E (2010; English translation 2012), followed by Gataca, published in English as Bred to Kill. He also writes the graphic-novel series The Nightmare Brigade, drawn by Yomgui Dumont.