Crimes of Winter
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- 85,00 kr
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- 85,00 kr
Utgivarens beskrivning
The third Inspector Sebag mystery “dives deeper into character than most traditional detective yarns and is written with wit, poignancy, and panache” (Kirkus Reviews).
Crime, suspense, and marital woes combine in this atmospheric procedural set in the seemingly quiet Mediterranean town of Perpignan.
This winter is going to be a rough one for Insp. Gilles Sebag, for he has discovered a terrible truth: his wife has been cheating on him. Bouncing between depression, whisky, and insomnia, he buries himself in work in an attempt to forget.
But his investigations lead him inexorably to bigger tragedies—a woman murdered in a hotel, a depressed man who throws himself from the roof of his building, another who threatens to blow up the neighborhood—all of them involving betrayals of some sort. Perpignan seems to be suffering from a veritable epidemic of crimes of passion. Adultery is everywhere—and each betrayal leads to another dramatic crime.
“Vivid and atmospheric . . . A thoughtful, almost lyrical approach to crime fiction, which will appeal to anyone who also liked In Her Wake, The Dying Detective or The Bird Tribunal. Its seasonal themes are also reminiscent of Johan Theorin’s Oland quartet, set at a Swedish resort.” —Crime Fiction Lover
“The most ambitious thematically. In it, Georget takes the stuff of existential novels and folds it into the crime genre’s formula.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“Engaging . . . The resolution is multilayered and satisfying.” —Publishers Weekly
“Fans of French settings will enjoy venturing outside of Paris, and the year-end holiday provides an additional measure of atmosphere to the crimes and solutions here.” —Library Journal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of French author Georget's engaging if sometimes discursive third mystery featuring Insp. Gilles Sebag (after 2014's Autumn, All the Cats Return), the Perpignan policeman catches his wife in a lie. She claims she went to her gym class at noon, but he knows she didn't because he stopped by the gym to invite her to lunch afterward and she wasn't there. After his suspicions about his wife's infidelity are painfully confirmed, Sebag grapples with a series of crimes that all stem from adultery, from murder to a harrowing episode involving a wronged husband and enough gasoline to burn down a residential block. It becomes clear that a common source has alerted and aggravated the cuckolded perpetrators. The depressed, diminished detective lets his colleagues pick up other threads of the case as the novel explores the lives of the supporting characters, offers ruminations on marriage and family, and details the many wine selections made with meals. The resolution is multilayered and satisfying, minus the storybook happiness.
