Pascal Garnier

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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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 and can't pass up the opportunity of chauffeuring Simon....

• Feb-2013
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The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a huge motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn't left her home since. And life has not been kinder to Bernard, he...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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Nature's a funny old thing, it does whatever it pleases.Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. But Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France. So that was that. At first it feels like a ...

• Feb-2014
• / Thriller
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In The Panda Theory, from the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier, a newcomer's benign appearance is shattered by the secrets of his past.'Action-packed' The Telegraph Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he c...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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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, Fabie...

• Nov-2014
• / Thriller
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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 w...

• Feb-2015
• / General Fiction
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If you have an inner life, you inevitably have a double life. It remained to be seen which of the two lives would gobble up the other.Brice and Emma had bought their new home in the countryside together. And then Emma disappeared. Now, as he awaits h...

• Jun-2016
• / Suspense
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Recently widowed grandmother Éliette is returning to her home in the mountains when her micro-car breaks down. A stranger comes to her aid on foot. Éliette offers him a lift, glad of the interruption to her humdrum routine.That night, her neighbour...

• Sep-2016
• / Suspense
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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 ...

• Aug-2017
• / Thriller
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Vultures at least have the decency to wait until their prey is dead before they rip it to pieces . . .At the home in the mountains he shares with his put-upon nurse, Thérèse, cantankerous retiree Édouard Lavenant is attempting to write his memoirs...

• Feb-2018
• / Mystery
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"One of the most remarkable and, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most inexplicably underappreciated French writers of the twentieth century''John Banville, New York Review of Books Enter the world of Pascal Garnier, where life''s m...

• Apr-2018
• / Mystery
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The second volume of the collected works of ‘the true heir to Simenon’, the late French noir writer Pascal Garnier.'Deliciously dark … painfully funny' New York TimesEnter the world of Pascal Garnier, where life's misfits take centre stage...

• Aug-2019
• / Mystery
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A trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. KennedyMarc 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 threeso...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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'Wonderful. . . properly noir' Ian Rankin

'Devastating and brilliant' Sunday Times

‘Happiness for tho...

• Jan-2025
• / General Fiction
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Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels feature a recurring set of themes, characters and settings, and reading them side by side allows the author's profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience to be fully a...

• Jan-2025
• / Literary
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Ennui, dislocation, alienation, estrangement - these are the colours on Garnier's palette. And somehow, darkly, he makes them almost funny. I could compare him with JG Ballard or with Michel Houellebecq or Daniel Davies. He's been compared with Georg...

• Jan-2025
• / Literary
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Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels weave a profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience. Volume 3 includes The Eskimo Solution, which combines the story of a struggling writer with excerpts of the crime ...