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In a sleepy Provencal village, retired postman Emile Pencenat is busy digging his own grave when he spots an unstamped letter in the cemetery's disused postbox, addressed to a Madamoiselle Champourcieux. He dutifully posts the letter. When the body of this same Madamoiselle is later discovered - pinned to her piano with an ancient bayonet - Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve one of the most bizarre crimes imaginable.
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"A unique and disturbing summer read... Pierre Magnan is a complete original" (Sunday Times)
"The author has developed a cunning sleight-of-hand in thrusting a key clue under the reader's nose, yet disguising it. Veteran reader of crime fiction though I am, I didn't guess correctly. But the atmosphere is most to be relished. The lavishly complicated plot unfolds among spine-tingling descriptions of remote Provence" (Jane Jakeman Independent)
"From real to surreal...This quirky story of avarice and vengeance in rural France unfolds with all the charm of a slightly puzzling art house french movie" (Carla McKay Daily Mail)
"Crime fiction for those with a soul and a dark sense of humour" (Independent on Sunday)
"Magnan chronicles the hidden passions seething below the apparently idyllic surface of rural life [in a style] closer to Flaubert than Midsomer Murders" (Daily Telegraph)
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"The author has developed a cunning sleight-of-hand in thrusting a key clue under the reader's nose, yet disguising it. Veteran reader of crime fiction though I am, I didn't guess correctly. But the atmosphere is most to be relished. The lavishly complicated plot unfolds among spine-tingling descriptions of remote Provence" (Jane Jakeman Independent)
"From real to surreal...This quirky story of avarice and vengeance in rural France unfolds with all the charm of a slightly puzzling art house french movie" (Carla McKay Daily Mail)
"Crime fiction for those with a soul and a dark sense of humour" (Independent on Sunday)
"Magnan chronicles the hidden passions seething below the apparently idyllic surface of rural life [in a style] closer to Flaubert than Midsomer Murders" (Daily Telegraph)
A wonderfully atmospheric thriller set, like all Magnan's work, in Provence, and featuring his engaging detective, Commissaire Laviolette.
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0099470195
- ISBN 13 9780099470199
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine320
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. In a sleepy Provencal village, retired postman Emile Pencenat is busy digging his own grave when he spots an unstamped letter in the cemetery s disused postbox, addressed to a Madamoiselle Champourcieux.KlappentextrnrnIn a sleepy Provencal v. Codice articolo 594351017
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