
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses
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Faced with a house of tight-lipped witnesses to a murder, Simenon's legendary Inspector Maigret must change his methods to uncover the truth
'The family and the house had turned in on themselves, acquiring a hostile face in the process'
The once-wealthy Lachaume family closes ranks when one of their own is shot dead, claiming to have heard and seen nothing of the murder. This leaves Maigret - along with a troublesome new magistrate who has waded into the case - to pick his way through their shameful secrets.
'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
'Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary legend' Boyd Tonkin, The Times
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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 -- John Banville * Financial Times * 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 -- Boyd Tonkin * The Times * Terrific...the 75 Inspector Maigret books are almost uniformly wonderful. They are not crime or even detective fiction as ordinarily understood...they are about human foibles, moral failings and compromises, set in an evocatively atmospheric Paris -- David Mills * Sunday Times * A great writer of detail, of atmosphere -- Leila Slimani * Financial Times * A genius ... Simenon broke all the rules -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph * The novels brim with atmosphere, insight and intelligence . . . quite unlike anything else written before or since -- India Knight * The Times * Exceptional... Simenon's writing still seems fresh...one of the great pleasures is the summoning of France's many landscapes and accompanying social milieux . . . There is also, and it's a chief glory of the books, a whole range of different Parises, from the shiny rich to the hypocritical bourgeois middle to the struggling, furious world of the poor, desperate and professionally criminal -- John Lanchester * Times Literary Supplement * I never read contemporary fiction-with one exception: the works of Simenon -- T.S. Eliot One of the most important writers of our century -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid style -- Amor TowlesMore details
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