Pel and the Picture of Innocence
An extravagant, big time gangland criminal is ambushed and assassinated; the only witness a ten-year-old-boy.
Chief Inspector Pel is called in to investigate the killing, which spirals into an international investigation when a respected spinster is bludgeoned to death and some curious links begin to clink into place.
Moody, sharp-tongued and worrying constantly about his health, Inspector Pel ensures that no case goes unsolved, in these mordantly witty French mysteries.
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781788423663
- Published
- 9 September 2021
- Pages
- 240
- Duration
- Dimensions
- 129 x 198 mm
- Genre
- Cosy Crime
- Imprint
- Farrago
Reviews
Praise for the Inspector Pel Mystery series:
‘Totally convincing’
‘Mr Hebden has created a nice band of flics’
‘Pel and his procedurals are some of the best things since Maigret’
‘Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Désiré Pel, as well rounded a character as Maigret or Van der Valk’
‘Impeccable French ambience, unexaggerated flics, and a well-constructed solution. Hebden proves again that few understand Gallic cops better than English writers!’
‘Some characters grow as their saga lengthens and Pel… is one of them. You might say he is ripening along with the grapes’
‘…written with downbeat humour and some delightful dialogue’
‘…all is most cunningly contrived and dovetailed into a coherent plot’
‘A thoroughly entertaining read’
‘The best Gallic sleuth since Maigret’
