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«Malet è, giustamente, ritenuto fra le voci più alte del noir francese».
Giancarlo De Cataldo

«Maestro del noir, Malet è giudicato, non a torto, migliore di Simenon».
Corrado Augias

«Malet ha ceduto al suo modify ego Burma molto di sé, non soltanto l’amore in keeping with le pipe taurine:
la predilezione del vizio sulla virtù, l’indipendenza non negoziabile, los angeles scorrettezza politica».
Roberto Iasoni, «Corriere della Sera»

«Uno dei detective più riusciti del noir novecentesco. Un classico. E basta».
Fabrizio d’Esposito, «il Fatto Quotidiano»

«Funziona ancora, non in keeping with nostalgia ma in keeping with l. a. singolare miscela di cinismo e ironia del monologare di Burma e according to los angeles qualità delle sue figure».
Tiziano Gianotti, «D – l. a. Repubblica»

«Solo da morto gli fu tributata l. a. caratura letteraria che si meritava, non inferiore a quella di Simenon».
Bruno Ventavoli, «TTL - los angeles Stampa»

Soon a moment sufferer meets his maker, and Wolfe needs to piece jointly the reality in the back of Jarrell’s scandalously ill-behaved family members. And for one member of that charmed circle—a two-time killer dozing the fitful sleep of the guilty—it may perhaps end up a perilous awakening.

When a girl is going lacking in a spring storm from snow and is located useless in a bear's den, Sheriff Martha Ettinger reunites together with her once-again lover Sean Stranahan to enquire. In a pannier of the lifeless woman's horse, they discover a pockets of previous trout flies, the leather-based engraved with the initials EH. just a couple of days ahead of, Patrick Willoughby, the president of the Madison River Liars and Fly stages membership, have been approached by way of a guy promoting fishing apparatus that he claimed as soon as belonged to Ernest Hemingway. A accident? Sean does not imagine so, and he quickly reveals himself at the path of a stolen trunk rumored to comprise not just the well-known writer's worthy fly fishing apparatus yet necessary pages of unpublished work.

The research will take Sean via awesome chapters in Hemingway's life. Inspired via a real tale, Cold Hearted River is an exhilarating experience, relocating from Montana to Michigan, the place a lady grapples with the secrets and techniques in her middle, to a cabin in Wyoming lower than the iced over To demise Plateau, and eventually to the ruins in Havana, the place an outdated guy struggles to accomplish his life's venture one precise sentence at a time.

Polly’s Cake store has been a function of the procuring parade for a few years, but if its proprietor broadcasts her retirement, the Fethering citizens begin to fear in regards to the lack of this well known amenity. Alarmed by means of rumours that the café may well develop into a Starbucks, a bunch golf equipment jointly to shape the keep Polly’s Cake store motion Committee.
The plan is that Polly’s may still develop into a neighborhood enterprise, controlled and run by way of volunteers from the village. Roped in to assist, Jude unearths the committee conferences fraught with petty energy struggles, clashing personalities and significant egos. concerns take a flip for the more severe while she and Carole come upon a badly-decomposed physique on Fethering seashore – and discover a hyperlink to Polly’s. not just do the 2 neighbours need to discover whodunit, also they are confronted with the thorny query: is it attainable to run a enterprise on that the majority risky of commodities - goodwill?