Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored

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It's the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore. The town is full of tourists and at the Perpignan police headquarters, Sebag and Molina, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day's misdemeanours and petty complaints. But out of the blue a young Dutch woman is brutally murdered on a beach at Argel--s, and another disappears without a trace. A serial killer obsessed with Dutch women Maybe. Gilles Sebag finds himself thrust into the middle of a diabolical game.

Reviews

"Perfect deckchair entertainment." The Daily Mail

"Savour the Gallic charm of this sizeable case for Inspector Gilles Sebag." Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

"A lively police procedural starring Inspector Gilles Sebag, a sympathetic cop with a happy marriage, of the Perpignan force in southern France." The Times

"A superior beach read for fans of international crime." Booklist

"My discovery of the year, an excellent debut novel with an intriguing title." Euro Crime

Author Bio

Philippe Georget was born in 1962. He works as a TV news anchorman for France-3. A passionate traveler, in 2001 he explored the entire length of the Mediterranean shoreline with his wife and their three children in an RV. He lives in Perpignan.Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored, his debut novel, won the SNCF Crime Fiction Prize and the City of Lens First Crime Novel Prize. Steven Rendall has translated ninety-six books from French and German, four of which have won major translation prizes. His translations for Europa Editions include Disturbance by Philippe Lanon (2019) and The Tyranny of Algorithms by Miguel Benasayag (2021). He is professor emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. He lives in France.