Catherine Simon (1)

The second volume of the Commissioner Leblanc series was exciting to read.
It's just before Christmas when Marie's dog finds a corpse in the cellar of the Roches Noires apartment house. Marie knows the dead. It is a journalist from Paris who owns a small apartment in Roches Noires. As it turns out she was also the girlfriend of an old Jew who was able to flee to France shortly before the WWII. His two sons also have apartments in Roches Noires, where his father lives. One son is an architect and the other manages a beauty clinic together with a friend. There you can not just lift the wrinkles or make a withdrawal cure, no, it is also very well known for efficient diet programs. What did the dead find out that she had to be killed? Leblanc detects in all directions. It's snowing, but fortunately it is culinary well supplied.… (mehr)

This is the first book of the Commissaire Leblanc series. It plays on the Norman coast in the resort of Deauville-Trouville. One could call this book a cozy mystery. It is a simple act and even if there are dead, it is not bloodthirsty. Of course, the romance must not be missing and the very good food let me run the water in my mouth.
A woman who used to live in Paris, and from that time knows Commissaire Leblanc, since he was her lover, finds a dead man on her morning walk. This is how the paths between her and Leblanc inevitably intersect. Who is the dead man? Everyone knows him as a day labourer, who on the one hand seeks employment from the fishermen and, on the other hand, is an active member of the voluntary fire brigade. It is incomprehensible to everyone that he had to die. The author also brings up the subject of overfishing in this story.
Commissaire Leblanc loves the women and the food. Through a trauma he can not sleep alone in the night and therefore always finds in his address book a woman.… (mehr)