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Three stories, three ways to be shocked to the bitter Noir
Gallic Noir: Volume 1
What you need to know before your trail
How’s the Pain? – the tale of an ageing ‘pest exterminator’ taking on one last job on the French Riviera;
The Panda Theory – a stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton town and befriends the locals … but is he as angelic as he seems?;
The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings modernity close to a flat in which a brother and sister live together, haunted by terminal illness and the events of 1945.
Travel Guide
France
Picardy
Brother and sister Bernard and Yolande live together as they have done for years. She locks up the home and barricades them inside, still fearful of a war which ended years earlier. Bernard used to the one who worked, kept the home nice, was the more stable one ofthe two, but now he’s dying. Regrets come to the surface and violence is the result
French Riviera
How’s the Pain?, the tale of an ageing ‘pest exterminator’ taking on one last job on the French Riviera. The region of Vales-les-Bains, Ucel and Saint-Julien-du-Serre and the muddy waters of the Volane is what
Brittany – The Panda Theory
A stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton town and befriends the locals … but is he as angelic as he seems? The title of this Garnier novella comes from an African greeting. Rather than ask how one is doing, it is their custom to ask “How’s the pain?” That just about sums up this piece of noir.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Gallic Noir: Volume 1
Destination : France Author/Guide: Pascal Garnier Departure Time: Various
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