Breaking Point

Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller "Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, FT When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread - his resignation letter parked in his superior's desk draw - he is plunged into his most testing ordeal yet. A raid on the vault at the Bobigny law courts. Five vital pieces of evidence swiped. Four men who can no longer be held: an armed robber, a foreign legionnaire, a kidnapper and a paedophile. But what is the connection between them? With Coste and his team at a loss, it's the moral outrage of another criminal that will throw up a lead: one they'll follow to their breaking point - and beyond. What readers are saying about Olivier Norek You can see the similarities with the TV series Spiral , which can only be a major positive! A hard hitting and gritty French crime read that makes an impact. A great thriller, sardonic, humorous, dark. I loved this book. Well written and had an authentic feel to it. A complete page turner. Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller "Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, FT When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread - his resignation letter parked in his superior's desk draw - he is plunged into his most testing ordeal yet. A raid on the vault at the Bobigny law courts. Five vital pieces of evidence swiped. Four men who can no longer be held: an armed robber, a foreign legionnaire, a kidnapper and a paedophile. But what is the connection between them? With Coste and his team at a loss, it's the moral outrage of another criminal that will throw up a lead: one they'll follow to their breaking point - and beyond. What readers are saying about Olivier Norek You can see the similarities with the TV series Spiral , which can only be a major positive! A hard hitting and gritty French crime read that makes an impact. A great thriller, sardonic, humorous, dark. I loved this book. Well written and had an authentic feel to it. A complete page turner. Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

Hockey star Grayson Crawford is in hot water. Amidst grieving a family member, he can't seem to pull his act together, threatening everything he's worked so hard for-and the team he can't live without. To clean up his image and prove he can change, he agrees to a PR relationship, but there's only one woman he wants by his side. Except, Bella Stratford couldn't be a worse candidate. Only recently taking the role of his personal assistant to pay for her mother's medical bills, she already has her hands full dodging puck bunnies and fixing Grayson's messes. Not to mention her heart is under strict lock and key after life taught her that men cannot be trusted. But when her mother's health gets worse, becoming Grayson's fake girlfriend is the last solution left. In public, they're the perfect doting couple. In private, all those carefully drawn lines are beginning to blur. Because the shy, sweet man is not what she expected, and the guarded, caring woman just needs someone looking out for her. And with each stolen glance and tender kiss, their broken hearts might be starting to heal.

Hockey star Grayson Crawford is in hot water. Amidst grieving a family member, he can't seem to pull his act together, threatening everything he's worked so hard for-and the team he can't live without. To clean up his image and prove he can change, he agrees to a PR relationship, but there's only one woman he wants by his side. Except, Bella Stratford couldn't be a worse candidate. Only recently taking the role of his personal assistant to pay for her mother's medical bills, she already has her hands full dodging puck bunnies and fixing Grayson's messes. Not to mention her heart is under strict lock and key after life taught her that men cannot be trusted. But when her mother's health gets worse, becoming Grayson's fake girlfriend is the last solution left. In public, they're the perfect doting couple. In private, all those carefully drawn lines are beginning to blur. Because the shy, sweet man is not what she expected, and the guarded, caring woman just needs someone looking out for her. And with each stolen glance and tender kiss, their broken hearts might be starting to heal.

13 percent of all individuals exonerated in the United States between 1989 and 2024 were wrongfully convicted because of a false confession Why do innocent people confess to crimes that they did not commit? This question has confounded the public for decades. Most of us believe that we would never admit to something we did not do--especially if that admission could lead to prison. Yet, false confessions are one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions in the United States. Research and anecdotal evidence show that coercive police interrogations are often to blame. In her book, Breaking Point , Robin Dahlberg sheds light on the powerful and often devastating tactics used in these interrogations. Collaborating with six exonerees--each of whom falsely confessed and served time for a crime they did not commit--Dahlberg reveals the human cost of these tactics. Each exoneree endured pressure so intense that telling a lie felt safer than holding onto the truth.

13 percent of all individuals exonerated in the United States between 1989 and 2024 were wrongfully convicted because of a false confession Why do innocent people confess to crimes that they did not commit? This question has confounded the public for decades. Most of us believe that we would never admit to something we did not do--especially if that admission could lead to prison. Yet, false confessions are one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions in the United States. Research and anecdotal evidence show that coercive police interrogations are often to blame. In her book, Breaking Point , Robin Dahlberg sheds light on the powerful and often devastating tactics used in these interrogations. Collaborating with six exonerees--each of whom falsely confessed and served time for a crime they did not commit--Dahlberg reveals the human cost of these tactics. Each exoneree endured pressure so intense that telling a lie felt safer than holding onto the truth.