Maigret Goes to School

Oct 7, 2024 7:25 PM

Author:Georges Simenon,Linda Coverdale

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville

'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never met before, and his job was to discover their most intimate secrets. This time, as it happened, it wasn't even his job. He was the one who had chosen to come, because a teacher had waited for him for hours in the Purgatory at the Police Judiciaire.'

When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

Reviews

Bolton never lets the tension drop. Indeed it is her ability to convey creeping dread that marks out her exceptional talent as a story-teller... For once, the description 'impossible to put down' is fully merited, for this is an absolute page-turner.

—— Geoffrey Wansell , Daily Mail

Bolton establishes a forbidding atmosphere . . . A slippery, devious narrative in which things are not always what they seem.

—— Crime Scene

Bolton is a gripping storyteller with fine, haunted characters

—— Peter James

With Dead Woman Walking Sharon Bolton exceeds her own high standards of excellence. It grips from the start... The plots merge skilfully, with many splendid twists along the way.

—— Marcel Berlins , The Times

Dead Woman Walking once again signals what has made the novels of Sharon Bolton so successful: her clever amalgamation of two genres - the crepuscular, uncanny mystery . . . and the more traditional crime/thriller narrative.

—— Barry Forshaw, Guardian

A real race-through read. Bolton's writing is pacy, and features a brilliant twist I wish I'd written.

—— Clare Mackintosh (in Shortlist)

It's an absolute barnstormer! A blisteringly brilliant read.

—— Mick Herron

A take on the chase genre that is decidedly original . . . bursting at the seams with narrative, setting and complexity of character.

—— Mystery Scene

Takes readers on quite a chase

—— New York Times

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