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Passionfruit
Oct 17, 2024 5:57 PM

Author:Daniel Pennac

Passionfruit

Benjamin Malaussène and family are far from happy when his fortune teller younger sister Thérèse marries the aristocratic Count Marie-Colbert de Roberval at a televised wedding – a ceremony from which Marie-Colbert has unceremoniously banned the madcap Malaussène clan. Two days later, Thérèse turns up in Paris’s Belleville quarter back early from their honeymoon, only to narrowly escape death as her fairground caravan is mysteriously torched to the ground.

When that same day his sister Thérèse’s husband is found dead at the foot of his luxury apartment’s stairwell, Benjamin Malaussène, professional scapegoat, packs his bags ready for the police to haul him off.

Only it’s Thérèse the police arrest when she refuses to disclose her whereabouts the night of her husband’s murder. Without her alibi – which might have something to do with her sudden pregnancy – it’s over to Benjamin to save the day. Family and friends join forces to leave no corner of Paris unturned in their search for the true culprit.

Reviews

Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world

—— Tatler

One of the finest 'golden age' crime novelists

—— Sunday Telegraph

Faultless

—— The Times

Allingham captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection... For those who relish classic crime fiction

—— Daily Express

Raymond Chandler is a master

—— New York Times

Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye

—— Los Angeles Times

Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist

—— The Boston Book Review

Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence

—— Daily Telegraph

A weird and spooky tale… Pierre writes with his usual style ... a great deal of tension and an even greater deal of imagination … a smart modern take on scary stuff

—— Sunday Sport

Smoking-fast . . . the debut of a gifted crime writer who will only get better

—— New York Times

A pulse-pumping heist thriller

—— Rolling Stone

Essential Scandi-fiction

—— Sunday Express

The novel is gripping. Erlendur is arguably Nordic fiction’s unhappiest and loneliest but most intriguing detective… It’s a sad disturbing book, chilling both in its setting and in the depths of human angst is explores

—— Marcel Berlins , The Times

Be warned: if you’ve ever spent time with this marvelous Scandi crime character, you’ll be hard pressed to hold back a tear

—— Siobhan Murphy , Metro

This final chapter in the Erlendur series stalks the human heart unremittingly

—— Kerry Fowler , Sainsbury's Magazine

Another riveting thriller. Tackling difficult subjects with intelligence and humanity

—— Hello Magazine

A compelling summer read not to be missed

—— OK Magazine

This addictive new thriller from bestselling author Liane Moriarty weaves three stories together to a shocking and unpredictable climax

—— Take A Break Magazine

It's a hell of a good book. Funny and scary. She nails the feuding moms.

—— Stephen King

Not only an enthralling murder investigation... but a plot that is strengthened and illuminated by two of the best characters I have read for some time- reporter Sully Carter and his cohort, the streetwise gangster Sly Hastings... their exchanges are pure gold.

—— Raven Crime Reads

This is a terrific first novel by a man with a long career in journalism. The tale builds to a dramatic conclusion, with a final unexpected and terrible twist in the tail.

—— Crime Review
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