Pascal Garnier

Despite being a stranger in a small town, Gabriel quickly earns acceptance due to his acts of kindess and exceptional cooking, but behind the reserved appearence is a dark and haunted past.

The Panda Theory

"Action-packed and full of gallows humour."?The Sunday Telegraph Death is Simon's business. Now the aging vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast and he needs a driver. Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he's never seen the sea. As the unlikely pair set off on their journey, Bernard soon discovers Simon's definition of vermin is broader than he'd expected . . . This offbeat story is an affecting study of human frailty. Likened to Georges Simenon, Pascal Garnier wrote from his home in the Ardèche mountains until his death in 2010.

How's the Pain?

The A26 is under construction. Concrete still wet, it stands ready to serve as a cemetery for lost girls.

The A26

Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, Fabien decides to find out about the lover's widow, Martine, first by stalking her, then by breaking into her home. He really needs to get Martine on her own. But she never goes anywhere without her formidable best friend, Madeleine ...

The Front Seat Passenger

Heads will roll as two friends with a shocking secret are reunited in Versailles

The Islanders

Emily Boyce

Jane Aitken

Eskimo Solution

Cennetteki Yeryüzü

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.

The Eskimo Solution: Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir

In a new retirement community in Southern France, first residents Martial and Odette get along with new neighbors Maxime and Marláene at first, but tensions quickly build and reach a breaking point when a group of gypsies moves nearby.

Moon in a Dead Eye

Teoria pandy

'Masterly'John Banville 'Wonderful . . . properly noir'Ian Rankin Marc dreams of going somewhere far, far away - but he'll start by taking his cat and his grown-up daughter, Anne, to an out-of-season resort on the Channel. Reluctant to go home, the curious threesome head south for Agen, whose main claim to fame is its prunes. As their impromptu road trip takes ever stranger turns, the trail of destruction - and mysterious disappearances - mounts up in their wake. Shocking, hilarious and poignant, the final dose of French noir from Pascal Garnier, published shortly before his death, is the author on top form.

A Long Way Off

Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast and he needs a driver. Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he's never seen the sea. He can't pass up the chance to chauffeur for Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin is broader than he'd expected...Veering from the hilarious to the horrific, this offbeat story from master stylist, Pascal Garnier, is at heart an affecting study of human frailty.

How's the Pain?: Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir

It's a few days before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the funeral. While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a chance encounter brings Olivier back in touch with childhood friend Jeanne and her blind brother, Rodolphe. Rodolphe suggests they have dinner together, along with a homeless man he's taken in. As the wine flows, dark secrets are spilled, and there's more than just hangovers to deal with the next morning...

The Islanders: Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir

Les enfants de la nuit

Kochen, Reden, Morden ... "Die Arme weit ausbreiten, doch nichts festhalten, nichts zurückhalten." Das ist das Schicksal des grossen Stoffpandas - und gleichzeitig auch Gabriels Motto, der eines Sonntags im Oktober in einer kleinen Stadt in der Bretagne strandet. Leise und unauffällig schleicht er sich in das Leben der Menschen, die er dort trifft, hört ihnen zu, kocht für sie. Für jeden wird Gabriel zu einem unverzichtbaren Freund, der sie von ihrer Last befreien könnte. Doch niemand ahnt, dass Gabriels eigenes Schicksal ihm das Leben zur Qual macht.

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