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It’s the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore. The town is full of tourists and at the Perpignan police headquarters, Sebag and Molino, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day’s misdemeanors and petty complaints without a trace of enthusiasm. But out of the blue a young Dutch woman is brutally murdered on a beach at Argelès, and another disappears without a trace in the alleys of the city. A serial killer obsessed with Dutch women? Maybe. The media goes wild. Gilles Sebag finds himself thrust into the middle of a diabolical game. If he intends to salvage anything. He will have to put aside his domestic cares, forget his suspicions about his wife’s faithfulness, ignore his heart murmur, and get over his existential angst. He waits joylessly, patiently, and lets himself go. The stone house may end up being his grave. Who’s doing what, who’s chasing who?
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- Sales Rank: #178389 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-02
- Released on: 2013-07-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
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After two decades of marriage, Gilles Sebag, a police detective in Perpignan on the French Mediterranean shore, is more in love than ever with his beautiful wife, Claire, and he’s devoted to his teenage son and daughter. But as midsummer sets in, he’s filled with angst; Claire may be having an affair, and his children are rapidly outgrowing family vacations. With the kidnapping of a young Dutch tourist, Gilles must compartmentalize his worries, unravel an increasingly confounding case, and save the young woman. Georget, a newscaster for France 3 television, has put together a stylish debut novel filled with engaging characters, a vivid sense of place, and an abundance of discursive Gallic charm. Gilles is a fine protagonist: smart, conflicted, not entirely sure he’s up to the challenges before him, fully French but completely at home in a place that is as much Catalan as French. Georget’s Perpignan, just kilometers from Spain, sounds, tastes, and smells like paradise. Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored is a superior beach read for fans of international crime. --Thomas Gaughan
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"Philippe Georget has us hooked and he will not let us go, masterfully commanding his narrative to its final denouement." —Pol'Art Noir
"The great richness of this debut novel lies especially with its context and its characters...It is hard to believe how well [Philippe Georget] seems to know the region of Catalonia. Wander through it as a reader, in any case, solely for the sake of pleasure." —Hannibal Le Lecteur
"The author's writing style is supple and nimble, and he sets into motion an inexhaustible intrigue." —Isabelle Ollivier-Queau
"The principal character of Georget's novel is Catalonia, a region seldom used in noir fiction. Far from hyper-urban cities...the countryside, brutalized by heat, the scents of the Mediterranean and of Spain, and the cosmopolitanism of Perpignan are the massive figures who are imbued little by little, through Georget's narrative, with a new mythology." —Obiwi Magazine
About the Author
Philippe Georget was born in 1963. In France, he resumed studies that lead to a degree in history and a master's degree in journalism in 1988. He first worked for Radio France and The Rough Guide before embarking on regional television side of Orleans. He has worked as a journalist editor, cameraman and presenter. For his first novel "Summertime All The Cats Are Bored" he received the First Novel Award 2011 and The Mystery of the Polar Price SNCF 2011.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
If cats could read this book, they wouldn't be bored
By Maine Colonial
As summer draws to a close, I wanted to read a summer mystery. And what's more summery than a story set in the south of France? In this case, we're in an unusual location for crime fiction: Perpignan, way down in France's Mediterranean south, almost to Spain.
It's another warm July in Perpignan, and police inspector Gilles Sebag is adjusting to changes at home. His teenage daughter and son are both away for the month, and he and his beautiful wife, Clare, are getting a taste of what it will soon be like to be full-time empty nesters. Gilles is looking forward to spending more time alone with Clare, whom he adores even more than when they fell in love at university, but he wonders if she feels the same. Is she lying to him about where she goes when he's busy at work in the evenings? Could she even be having an affair?
At work, Gilles seems to be such an astute and well-respected detective that we wonder why he's not higher-ranked. That's quickly explained. When his second child was born, Gilles took advantage of France's then-new parental-leave law and spent three years working part-time. Nothing was ever said to his face, but it was clear that this didn't go over well in the macho police world. Gilles never received any further advancement. That was alright with him, though. He just wanted to be left alone and allowed to do his job.
Now, two new cases land in Gilles's lap. A Catalan taxi driver, José Lopez, has been reported missing by his wife, and the force also receives a report of a missing young woman--a Dutch tourist named Ingrid. Are the two disappearances connected? And what of the enterprising journalist who livens up the summer torpor with a sensational story that the missing Ingrid is part of a series of attacks on beautiful young Dutch female tourists?
Author Philippe Georget is former TV news anchorman who now lives with his family in Perpignan. This is his debut novel and is a welcome introduction to an appealing new protagonist. Gilles is a thoughtful, intelligent, sensitive guy. Someone you'd like to get to know. His character and devotion to his family make a refreshing change from the usual angst-ridden misfit model (though I enjoy a few of those as well). But that's not to say that Gilles is some conventional Father Knows Best type. We know right away that he's different when we read that he bucked the cultural norm by being a half-time stay-at-home dad. Also, his musings on marriage and his children are very different from what you might expect, and made me hope to learn more about Gilles and Clare in future books.
The Perpignan setting was a bonus. I was somewhat familiar with the city from reading World War II history, because it was so often a meeting place from which refugees and downed Allied pilots escaped France with the aid of guides, who took them off by boat or over the Pyrenees to Spain. Perpignan's World War II history plays no part in this book, though. But we do get a real feel for the summer heat, the beauty of the Rousillon region and the Catalan flavor that mixes with the French. The owner of Gilles's favorite coffee shop is Catalan and Gilles works on his Catalan by conversing with him. I enjoyed learning a little about the dialect this way.
Although this book is part of the publisher's World Noir collection, and the cover blurb calls it French noir, I wouldn't call it noir at all. There are at least a dozen definitions of noir, it's true, but the general consensus is that noir is cynical, fatalistic, with a protagonist who is no hero. In noir, the atmosphere of moral ambiguity is usually thick as a London fog. This book does have a cynical tone at times, and there's a slight mist of moral ambiguity about marriage, but otherwise the story doesn't tick any of the rest of the noir boxes. Gilles is a good guy with a clear agenda to rescue the girl and get the bad guys. I'll confess that I'm not much of a fan of noir, so the fact that this isn't actually noir was a plus for me. But I think even noir fans can still enjoy this book, as long as they don't have expectations that it will fall into that genre.
Oh, finally, about that title. If you read the book, maybe you can tell me what it has to do with the story!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
An outstanding mystery
By Gale B. Murray
Can't imagine why some reviewers were so negative. As an ardent mystery reader, I found this one to be the best I've read in 2013. It's well written, with intriguing plot twists that held my attention from start to finish. An added bonus is the southern French setting and the author's vivid descriptions of the local scenery.
I loved this book, couldn't put it down, and was sad to have finished it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
This Cat wasn't Bored
By Lynda Birch
This is a police procedural and a well-written one that kept me reading late into the night. The laid back atmosphere disguises a deceptively complex narrative. The investigation is well thought through and develops at a very natural pace, but it is the characterizations that make this such an enjoyable read.
I think some of the negative reviews are from readers who are more accustomed to the North American style of mystery writing as opposed to European/French writing and as such they miss the nuances, particularly in the dialogues. I also feel the main subplot was very much resolved.
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