The Strangers in the House (Romans Durs)

“A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal.” —P. D. James

Caught in a spiral of bitter seclusion and drinking since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child eighteen years ago, Hector Loursat, once a respected lawyer, now holes up, unwashed and drunk on Burgundy, in his once grand but increasingly decrepit mansion. He barely notices the goings-on under his roof or the strange, dangerous secret life his daughter and her fri...