Wednesday 7 September 2016

2 BY PASCAL GARNIER

A couple this week from Pascal Garnier, a French author sadly no longer with us.




Too Close to the Edge and The Eskimo Solution are the 8th and 9th translated Garnier works from Gallic Press (cheers to them for the copies).









I'm a firm fan of Garnier having previously enjoyed...

The Front Seat Passenger
The Islanders
Boxes


Pascal Garnier died in 2010, aged 60.










There's a Wikipedia page on him here and an article from Keith Rawson on him at Lit Reactor.



I'm looking forward to these two bad boys soon.









Too Close to the Edge (2016)


A widow's quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger. Recently widowed grandmother Eliette is returning to her home in the mountains when her micro-car breaks down. A stranger comes to her aid on foot. Eliette offers him a lift, glad of the interruption to her humdrum routine. That night, her neighbours' son is killed in a road accident. Could the tragedy be linked to the arrival of her good Samaritan?









The Eskimo Solution (2016)

A crime writer uses the modest advance on his latest novel to rent a house on the Normandy coast.


There should be little to distract him from his work besides walks on the windswept beach, but as he begins to tell the tale of forty-something Louis - who, after dispatching his own mother, goes on to relieve others of their burdensome elderly relations - events in his own life begin to overlap with the work of his imagination.
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 September 2016 at 04:25

    Oh, I want to read those, too, Col! Garnier did some terrific noir, didn't he? I'll be keen to know what you think of these when you get there.

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    1. col29107 September 2016 at 04:29

      I knew you were a Garnier fan Margot! Happy days. I like the fact that his books are relatively short; no using 50 words when just a couple will suffice.

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  2. noirencyclopedia7 September 2016 at 05:59

    I'm looking forward to these too. Pascal Garnier tends not to be much noticed over here, alas.

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    1. col29107 September 2016 at 06:33

      An acquired taste perhaps, but once read not easily forgotten.

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  3. Clothes In Books10 September 2016 at 03:57

    An author I've been meaning to try for ages...

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    1. col291010 September 2016 at 08:43

      Hop to it then Moira! They aren't long books at all.

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  4. Prashant C. Trikannad10 September 2016 at 04:24

    I still haven't got around to reading Pascal Garnier's fiction. Thanks for the reminder, Col.

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    1. col291010 September 2016 at 08:43

      Prashant I hope you get to him at some point.

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  5. TracyK6 October 2016 at 08:12

    I will be trying this author. Glen has read one book by him, but I forget which one.

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    1. col29106 October 2016 at 22:04

      I really like his books, hopefully you will too.

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