by Maurice Perisset · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213012285
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«Perils en la demeure» is the crime novel by Maurice Perisset, published in French by Fayard in 1982.
At a village dance, Bernard, a young engineer, is fascinated by a girl spinning on a carousel. She does not show up for the date; when he goes looking for her, an old woman tells him that her granddaughter died in Algeria ten years before. Bernard finds in the cemetery the portrait of the unknown woman and the borrowed trench coat, and his investigation becomes an unsettling, suspenseful intrigue.
Novel in French, winner of the 1983 Prix Quai des Orfèvres. Paperback edition, 248 pages.
For those who enjoy classic French crime novels and rural mysteries with unsettling twists.
French writer (1920–1999)
