The novels brim with atmosphere, insight and intelligence . . . quite unlike anything else written before or since
India Knight, The Times
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above ...
John Banville, Financial Times
The father of contemporary European detective fiction . . . I loved the exotic setting of Parisian bars and run-down hotels, the economic storytelling
Ann Cleeves, Guardian
The novels brim with atmosphere, insight and intelligence . . . quite unlike anything else written before or since
India Knight, The Times
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above ...
John Banville, Financial Times
The father of contemporary European detective fiction . . . I loved the exotic setting of Parisian bars and run-down hotels, the economic storytelling
Ann Cleeves, Guardian
The novels brim with atmosphere, insight and intelligence . . . quite unlike anything else written before or since
India Knight, The Times
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above ...
John Banville, Financial Times
The father of contemporary European detective fiction . . . I loved the exotic setting of Parisian bars and run-down hotels, the economic storytelling
