Category: Humorous Mystery and Crime

Fires have been breaking out all over Chief Inspector Pel’s beloved province of Burgundy, from small houses to woodland. Then a local farmer’s flock of sheep is poisoned, a tray of valuable rings stolen from a local jewellers, and the body of a woman is found.

The third in a series of witty, erudite suspense mysteries, by the celebrated classic author – with an independent, smart heroine and an ending sure to surprise!

A double shooting of two ageing crooks leads Chief Inspector Pel all the way to Mexico to discover why they were murdered.

When Chief Inspector Pel accepts a drinks invitation at the house of a big shot, Deputy Claude Barclay, he doesn’t realise how compromised he will become by his acceptance.

An extravagant, big time gangland criminal is ambushed and assassinated; the only witness a ten-year-old-boy.

Brigade Criminelle is mobilised when a fatal stabbing, an anticipated delivery of lethal drugs from Marseilles, and the discovery of a thirty-year-old corpse in an ancient turreted tower in the town of Puyceldome coincide with a frantic search for two murderous hitchhikers – all on Chief Inspector Pel’s patch.

Brigade Criminelle is mobilised when a fatal stabbing, an anticipated delivery of lethal drugs from Marseilles, and the discovery of a thirty-year-old corpse in an ancient turreted tower in the town of Puyceldome coincide with a frantic search for two murderous hitchhikers – all on Chief Inspector Pel’s patch.

The new, darkly comic thriller by the acclaimed author of Pest Control.

Fitzhugh tightens his grip on a reputation for absurdist black comedy in this farcical tale of fraud and fidelity.

In the music industry, everybody plans to make a killing — one way or another. It’s murder on Music Row, where things don’t always turn out as planned.