My Review (5 stars out of 5) Following a road accident, Inspector Max Mallery is keen to get back to his duties in Bordeaux, but a call from German-born Anna Hartmann throws him a curve ball. Not only is she Max’s ex-wife, but her husband Nicolas Lavigne (a former colleague of Max’s), has gone missing.…
Category: French
‘Pietr the Latvian’ by Georges Simenon
**** Georges Simenon’s first outing with his Parisian detective follows the pipe-smoking investigator round the seamier side of the city, as he attempts to track down master criminal, Pietr the Latvian. My first impressions of this book were that either Simeonon was a really crap writer, or that the translation is at fault, my reasoning…
