- Published: 3 September 2007
- ISBN: 9780099470199
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $26.99
The Messengers of Death
- Published: 3 September 2007
- ISBN: 9780099470199
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $26.99
The author has developed a cunning sleight-of-hand in thrusting a key clue under the reader's nose, yet disguising it. Veteran reader of crime fiction though I am, I didn't guess correctly. But the atmosphere is most to be relished. The lavishly complicated plot unfolds among spine-tingling descriptions of remote Provence
Jane Jakeman, Independent
From real to surreal...This quirky story of avarice and vengeance in rural France unfolds with all the charm of a slightly puzzling art house french movie
Carla McKay, Daily Mail
A unique and disturbing summer read... Pierre Magnan is a complete original
Sunday Times
Crime fiction for those with a soul and a dark sense of humour
Independent on Sunday
Magnan chronicles the hidden passions seething below the apparently idyllic surface of rural life [in a style] closer to Flaubert than Midsomer Murders
Daily Telegraph
Magnan is a master storyteller... unmissable
Country Magazine