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Strangers in the House
Strangers in the House | Georges Simenon
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Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has been a bitter recluse for eighteen long years ever since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child to run off with another man. Once a successful lawyer, Loursat now guzzles burgundy and buries himself in books, taking little notice of his teenage daughter or the odd things going on in his vast and ever-more-dilapidated mansion. But one night the sound of a gunshot penetrates the padded walls of Loursat s study, and he is forced to investigate. What he stumbles on is a murder. Soon Loursat discovers that his daughter and her friends have been leading a dangerous secret life. He finds himself strangely drawn to this group of young people, and when one of them is accused of the murder, he astonishes the world by taking up the young man s defense. In "The Strangers in the House," Georges Simenon, master chronicler of the dark side of the human heart, gives us a detective story that is also a tale of an improbable redemption."
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Strangers in the House | Georges Simenon
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Another Simenon, my fifth this year, but this one's not a Maigret, being a stand-alone mystery. Only just started, so I don't have a great feel for it yet. The blurb says it's about a disheveled, drunken old man, Hector, whose run-down mansion becomes the site of the murder of an unidentified man, which the police seem uninterested in investigating thoroughly, settling on the wrong suspect. Hector decides to get to the truth! 🔎

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Strangers in the House | Georges Simenon
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I really enjoyed the book. But I need to let this one sit with me a bit.

LiteraryinPA I haven't heard about this one. What was it like? 8y
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