An impromptu visit to an old school friend in the Vendee draws Maigret into a disturbing local investigation.
Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid
traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and
off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human
condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector
Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its
evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating
psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in
the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where
he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Ros Schwartz (Translator)
Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator from French. Acclaimed
for her new version of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little
Prince, published in 2010, she has over 100 fiction and non-fiction
titles to her name.
The French government made Ros a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres in 2009, and in 2017 she was awarded the Institute of
Translation and Interpreting's John Sykes Memorial Prize for
Excellence.
Praise for Georges Simenon:
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth
century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us
look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at
absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian
“These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself.” —The
Washington Post
“The matchless French crime novelist.” —Adam Gopnik, The New
Yorker
“Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional
detective immortals.” —People
“I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov.” —William
Faulkner
“An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid
style.” —Amor Towles
“I never read contemporary fiction–with one exception: the works of
Simenon.” —T.S. Eliot
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion
as with reason.” —John Le Carré
“One of the most important writers of our century.” —Gabriel García
Márquez
“A favorite writer of mine.” —Sigrid Nunez
“A great writer of detail, of atmosphere.” —Leïla Slimani
“Feels incredibly modern…A great writer.” —Ian Rankin
“The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in
literature.” —André Gide
“A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness.”
—The Independent (London)
“Superb . . . The most addictive of
writers . . . A unique teller of tales.” —The
Observer (London)
“Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.” —John Gray
“A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously
readable—lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he
creates.” —Muriel Spark
“A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of
it.” —Peter Ackroyd
“Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century.” —John
Banville
"Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's
bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary
legend . . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic
wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and
confessor" ―Times (London)
"Strangely comforting . . . so many lovely bistros from the
Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that
counts." ―Margaret Atwood
"One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no
other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as
Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set
of characters - above all, an atmosphere." ―Financial Times
"Gripping . . . richly rewarding . . . You'll
quickly find yourself obsessing about his life as you tackle each
mystery in turn." ―Stig Abell, The Sunday Times (London)
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