After losing his wife and suffering a stroke, Édouard has retired to the mountains with his nurse. One day a man arrives claiming to be his long-lost son. This seems to bring about a softening of Édou
Recently widowed grandmother Eliette is returning to her house in the mountains when her car breaks down. A stranger offers help and Eliette gives him a lift, glad of the company and interruption to h
Brice and Emma had bought their new home together.Then Emma disappeared. Now, he awaits her return. He gradually comes to know his new neighbors including Blanche, an enigmatic woman in white, who has
The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn't left her home since
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.
A crime author writing the story of forty-something Louis, who decides to do his cash-strapped friends a favour by hastening their parents’ demise, finds reality and fiction overlapping during his sta
Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he's here. Yet his small acts of kindness quickly earn him acceptance from the locals. His new friends grow fond of
A quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside-down.A struggling author’s life becomes disconcertingly entangled with the crime novel he’s writing.Vultures circle as a cantankerous r
‘Garnier’s crime novels add significantly to the latest renaissance for this type of dark narrative.’ Publishers WeeklyVolume 2 includes The Front Seat Passenger, in which Fabien discovers his wife di
‘Garnier’s crime novels add significantly to the latest renaissance for this type of dark narrative’ - Publishers WeeklyVolume 1 includes How’s the Pain?, the tale of an ageing ‘pest exterminator’ tak