For Tony and Andree, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the H tel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape.
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
A wondrous achievement, brief, inexorable, pared to, and
agonisingly close to, the bone, and utterly compelling; in short, a
true and luminous work of art.
*John Banville*
A double crime, a dark provincial scandal, and a dreadful sort of
triumph . . . presented with shattering power
*San Francisco Chronicle*
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon
was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was
masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his
stories
*Guardian*
A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness
*Independent*
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