Gallic Noir

A trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read,Wonderful … Properly noir,The true heir to Simenon,Deliciously dark …Painfully funny,Garnier’s startling and surprisingly moving novels centre on strange goings-on in French provincial settings, creating a world that is at once familiar and utterly bizarre,The combination of sudden violence, surreal touches and bone-dry humour have led to Garnier’s work being compared with the films of Tarantino and the Coen brothers,Bleak, often funny and never predictable,A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard,A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony; it makes you grin as well as wince,For those with a taste for Georges Simenon or Patricia Highsmith,Ennui, dislocation, alienation, estrangement – these are the colours on Garnier’s palette. His books are out there on their own, short, jagged and exhilarating