Summertime,
All The Cats Are Bored (Mystery)
By
Philippe Georget
ISBN
#978-1609451210
432 Pages
Price
$17.00
Rating 5
Stars
“A Page
Turner”
On the
French Mediterranean near Spain, Inspector Gilles Sebag, of the Perpignan,
France, police department is thrust into a game of murder and kidnapping. The mysterious
killer plays cat and mouse with the police, as if daring them to catch him,
while he keeps a 19-year-old girl locked in a cellar.
The
police work with blindfolds on while the killer leaves clues that only confuse
them more. He sees Inspector Sebag as his main opponent in this deadly game of
crime, but believes he is the smarter of the two. Even if they do catch him,
the girl will surely die! And he will win the final game.
This book
was difficult to put down. Even though I had to read it over two days, I hated
to quit for food or rest. It was that good. I lived in France for three years,
and one of my French associates told me once, “Frenchmen are different from
Americans, Italians, Greeks, and other Europeans. If our wives cheat on us, it
makes us appreciate them more, just knowing other men desire them.” I mention
this because it has a bearing on Inspector Sebag and his investigation of the
case. We never really learn the reason behind the killer’s motive, except it
has something to do with his family – and maybe a sexual problem of his own.
The reader follows the police as they search for clues to the whereabouts of
the missing girl, and at the end they are placed on a ticking time clock to
save the girl.
Easily
the best mystery I’ve read so far this year, and I’ve read some darn good
ones.
Tom
Johnson
Detective
Mystery Stories
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