| Author/Contributor(s): | Simenon, Georges; Hobson, William |
| Publisher: | Picador USA |
| Date: | 05/04/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Maigret’s investigation of the murder of a once-wealthy businessman is frustrated by the victim’s uncooperative family—and a persnickety examining magistrate.
When the patriarch of a once-wealthy family is mysteriously murdered, Maigret is forced to dig into their past and secrets. Frustrated by the witnesses’ silence, the dour atmosphere of their dilapidated mansion, and the irritating presence of a young new examining magistrate who insists on shadowing him throughout the case, Maigret must unearth the family’s complicated history to even find a motive, let alone the murderer. Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses is a withering psychological portrait of a bourgeois family gone to seed and the violent consequences of decades’ worth of hidden shame and resentment.