The Lying Down Room (Serge Morel 1) (37 page)

Gradually, as the rain intensified, everything blurred, until the world outside the window lost its familiarity and only the stark, gruesome scene inside the room remained.

Anna Jaquiery is of French-Malaysian descent and grew up in Europe and Asia. She has worked as a journalist in several countries, starting out as a freelance reporter in Russia.
She is currently based in Melbourne with her husband and two sons.
The Lying-Down Room
is her debut novel – and the first in a series to feature Chief Inspector Serge Morel. The
second,
Death in the Rainy Season
, is out now.

Follow Anna on Twitter @AnnaJaquiery

First published 2014 by Mantle

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The extract from page 157 of ‘Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer’, pp. 153–230, in Aaron Ridley (ed.), Translated by Judith Norman,
Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols
.
And Other Writings
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