Romans by Simenon (242 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A shattering study of restlessness and midlife crisis on the ocean, from an icon of bleak fiction.Francois Mahe took his family on vacation to Porquerolles, a sun-drenched Cote d'Azur island, only because a friend suggested it. His everyday life as a small-town doctor was sedate and predicta…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "I always have a Simenon close at hand. In my youth I adored his Maigret books; nowadays I prefer his 'hard novels, ' as he called them, in which his mastery of human psychology is laid plain." --Julian Barnes Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution, and betrayal. On…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Dark, disturbing . . . Simenon discovered something fundamental about the soul." --The GuardianA string of murders has the small French town of La Rochelle in its grip. The victims, all elderly women, have been found strangled with cello string--in cafes, over card games, near the canal. As…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal." --P. D. James Caught in a spiral of bitter seclusion and drinking since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child eighteen years ago, Hector Loursat, once a respected lawyer, now…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Simenon has concentrated noir into a darkness as solid and heavy as the interior of a dwarf star." --William T. VollmannWhat happens to everyday morality in a time of political deceit and betrayal? In an unnamed city under military occupation, nineteen-year-old Frank--a low-level thug and t…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "The Blue Room is a wondrous achievement, brief, inexorable, pared to, and agonizingly close to, the bone, and utterly compelling; in short, a true and luminous work of art." --John Banville He felt no resentment toward Andree for biting his lip. In the context of their lovemaking, it had it…