Death In Bordeaux, the first of Allan Massie's trilogy of detective novels set in Vichy France, ended with none of the triumphalism or closure one expects from the genre.
Death In Bordeaux, the first of Allan Massie's trilogy of detective novels set in Vichy France, ended with none of the triumphalism or closure one expects from the genre.
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Dark Summer In Bordeaux by Allan Massie Quartet Books, £12 Reviewed by Rosemary Goring
It was tantalisingly incomplete, like a sentence half uttered, or a thought only partially expressed. As the introspective, taciturn chief inspector Lannes faded from sight, anguished at being beholden for the release of his son, a prisoner of war, to men he deplores, the reader knew the occupation of his beloved city was going to make further and tougher demands on him.
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