The Saint-Fiacre Affair Av Georges Simenon

<p><b>''The father of contemporary European detective fiction'' Ann Cleeves</b> <i><br><br>Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then, stepping inside the church, a blast of heat, soft light; the smell of candles and incense.</i><br><br>The last time Maigret went home to the village of his birth was for his father''s funeral. Now an anonymous note predicting a crime during All Souls'' Day mass draws him back there, where troubling memories resurface and hidden vices are revealed. <br><br>Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as <i>Maigret Goes Home</i>.<br><br>''Compelling, remorseless, brilliant'' John Gray<br><br>''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories'' <i>Guardian</i></p>