The Fairy Gunmother

A policeman on a mission of mercy is shot dead at point-blank range by a sweet old granny on a frosty morning. The neighborhood, Paris's bubbling Belleville quarter, is already in an uproar because a half-dozen other grannies have been found with their shriveled throats slit. Into this tense situation, along with a generous helping of suspects, full-fledged criminals, and heavy-handed cops, stumble Benjamin Malaussene and his journalist love, Julie. Benjamin works as a scapegoat in a publishing house, an unusual profession that makes him the ideal person to be framed for just about everything -- and he is. Meanwhile, two plainclothes detectives are putting all they have into solving the case: Van Thian, an undercover Vietnamese cop ingeniously disguised as a little old lady, and his cherubic but ruthless partner, Pastor. This galaxy implodes when the anarchic worlds of Benjamin, Julie, Thian, Pastor, and the Belleville neighborhood finally collide. The Fairy Gunmother, an old-fashioned thriller studded with brilliantly new-fashioned wit, is the first of four novels known as the Belleville Quartet, now being published in English for the first time.

ISBN 1860464459   Pages 248 ISBN13 9781860464454 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Vintage   Weight (grammes) 190 Imprint The Harvill Press   Published in London Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9781860464966 Publication date 18 Jun 1998   Height (mm) 195 Translator Ian Monk   Width (mm) 130 DEWEY 843.914

 Be the first to write a customer review