Maigret Gets Angry (Inspector Maigret)

“Both the Maigret books and his standalone romans durs . . . are a joy. What they have in common is crisp, economical prose, unexpected emotional depth and a strange sense of modernity.” —Andrew Taylor

Nearly two years into his police retirement, Maigret has turned down all offers of private detective work—until, during a broiling hot August, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family is found drowned in the Seine. According to her grandmother, the imperious Bernadette Amorelle, it was neither...