Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored - (World Noir) by Philippe Georget (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>It's a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and at the Perpignan police headquarters, Sebag and Molino are being slowly devoured by dull routine, petty complaints and family worries. Out of the blue a young Dutch woman is brutally murdered on a beach at Argeláes, and another disappears without a trace. A serial killer obsessed with Dutch women? Maybe. But there is more to this case than anyone suspects.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The first Inspector Sebag mystery. "The plot is intricate and tense . . . [A] fantastic French ticking-clock thriller" (<i>Daily Mail</i>).</b> <p/>It's the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is teeming with tourists. Sebag and Molino, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day's misdemeanors and petty complaints at the Perpignan police headquarters. But then a young Dutch woman is found murdered on a beach at Argelès, and another one disappears without a trace in the alleys of the city. Is it a serial killer obsessed with Dutch women? Maybe. The media senses fresh meat and moves in for the feeding frenzy. Out of the blue, Inspector Gilles Sebag finds himself thrust into the middle of a diabolical game. In order to focus on the matter at hand, he will have to put aside his cares, forget his suspicions about his wife's unfaithfulness, ignore his heart murmur, and get over his existential angst. But there is more to the case than anyone suspects. <p/>"This is a superlative debut novel from the world of French noir. A perfect beach read."--<i>La Repubblica</i> <p/>"[An] appealing hero . . . a crime novel très formidable."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review) <p/>"Georget provides great details along with a pace that lets the reader soak up those late-night swims and wine-soaked dinners in the end-of-summer Mediterranean heat."--<i>Star Tribune</i> <p/>"A stylish debut novel . . . A superior beach read for fans of international crime."--<i>Booklist</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Praise for <b><i>Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored <p/></i></b>"This is a superlative debut novel from the world of French noir. A perfect beach read."<br>--<i>La Repubblica</i> <p/>"Gilles Sebag, an astute cop despite himself, is a tremendously well rounded character, one of those literary creations that promises to have a long life in fiction."<br>--<i>D-La Repubblica</i> <p/>"Philippe Georget has us hooked on the first page and doesn't let us go, masterfully guiding his narrative to its final denouement."<br>--<i>Pol'Art Noir</i> <p/>"In Georget's novel the scents of the Mediterranean and of Spain, the cosmopolitanism of Perpignan are as much characters as the two investigators, Sebag and Molino."<br>--<i>Obiwi </i><br><br>"Philippe Georget has us hooked and he will not let us go, masterfully commanding his narrative to its final denouement." --Pol'Art Noir <BR> "The great richness of this debut novel lies especially with its context and its characters...It is hard to believe how well [Philippe Georget] seems to know the region of Catalonia. Wander through it as a reader, in any case, solely for the sake of pleasure." --Hannibal Le Lecteur <BR> "The author's writing style is supple and nimble, and he sets into motion an inexhaustible intrigue." --Isabelle Ollivier-Queau <BR> "The principal character of Georget's novel is Catalonia, a region seldom used in noir fiction. Far from hyper-urban cities...the countryside, brutalized by heat, the scents of the Mediterranean and of Spain, and the cosmopolitanism of Perpignan are the massive figures who are imbued little by little, through Georget's narrative, with a new mythology." --Obiwi Magazine<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Philippe Georget</b> was born in Épinay-sur-Seine in 1963. He works as a TV news anchorman for France-3. A passionate traveler, in 2001 he travelled the entire length of the Mediterranean shoreline with his wife and their three children in an RV. He lives in Perpignan. <i>Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored</i>, his debut novel, won the SNCF Crime Fiction Prize and the City of Lens First Crime Novel Prize. <p/><b>Steven Rendall </b>has translated more than sixty books from French and German, including <i>The Art and Critique of Forgetting</i>, which won the Modern Language Association of America, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation. He was formerly a professor of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon and editor of the magazine <i>Comparative Literature</i>.
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