Pascal Garnier, trans. from the French by Gallic Books. Gallic (www.gallicbooks.com), $12.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-906040-42-0
In this taut, low-key thriller, French author Garnier’s first crime novel to be translated into English, a man calling himself Gabriel wanders into a small Breton village, his urge to kill—for the moment—held in check. Who can say what will ignite...
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Pascal Garnier, trans. from the French by Emily Boyce. Gallic (www.gallicbooks.com), $12.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-908313-49-2
Garnier (1949–2010) packs humor, insights into aging, and a darkly pessimistic assessment of mankind into this slender crime novel, his third to be published in the U.S. this year (after How’s the Pain? and The Panda Theory). Martial and Odette...
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Pascal Garnier, trans. from the French by Emily Boyce.. Gallic (www.gallicbooks.com), $12.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-908313-03-4
First published in France in 2006, this low-key thriller from Garnier (1949–2010) captures in gem-like detail the final assignment of an aging hit man, Simon Marechall. Simon engages 21-year-old Bernard Ferrand to be his driver, though he's...
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Pascal Garnier, trans. from French by Emily Boyce. Gallic (gallicbooks.com), $13.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-908313-72-0
At the outset of this offbeat comedy of errors from Garnier (How’s the Pain?), Olivier Verdier travels from Paris to Versailles, where his estranged mother has died a few days before Christmas. In Versailles, Olivier’s path crosses those of three...
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Pascal Garnier, trans. from the French by Emily Boyce. Gallic, $13.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-910477-25-0
Éliette Vélard, the 64-year-old heroine of this sly noir from Garnier (Boxes), has sold her flat in Paris and moved to the country house in the south of France that she used to share with her late husband. She has two grown children to look after...
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Pascal Garnier, trans. from the French by Jane Aitken. Gallic (www.gallicbooks.com), $13.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-908313-63-8
Fabien Delorme, the protagonist of this exquisite noir from Garnier (Moon in a Dead Eye), returns home to Paris after a painful visit with his elderly father in Normandy to find the house empty. Fabien doesn’t mind the unexpected absence of his wife,
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Pascal Garnier, trans. from the French by Melanie Florence. Gallic (gallicbooks.com), $12.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-910477-04-5
This intense, morbid character study from Garnier (1949–2010) is less noir than gloomy contemporary gothic. Brice, an artist, has moved to a house in the French countryside to await the arrival of his wife, Emma, while he slips gradually into...
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Pascal Garnier, trans. from the French by Emily Boyce. Gallic, $15.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-91047-777-9
At the dinner party that opens this disturbing Simenonesque novella from Garnier (The Panda Theory), Marc Lecas loudly announces in response to a stray remark “I know Agen, too!” even though he spent only a few hours a decade ago in this town in...
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