Autumn, All The Cats Return
(Murder Mystery)
“An Inspector Sebag Mystery”
By Philippe Georget
ISBN #9781609452261
Price $18.00
432 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“Brilliant writing, and
provocative characters you won’t forget.”
An old man in his seventies is discovered in his apartment,
shot in the head, handcuffed and tied to a chair. It was an execution style killing, and on
the door were the letters OAS – the Algerian Organization Army Secret from the French-Algerian wars in the
1960s. Lt. Giles Sebag and his partner Jacques Molino, from the Perpignan, France, police department on the Mediterranean are assigned the case,
but when a second murder victim is found with the OAS written on the scene,
Superintendent Castello forms a team to investigate, fearing someone may be
killing old French fighters from the Algerian war.
This was a deep mystery involving something that
happened fifty years before when Algeria fought for their independence from France.
French and Spanish citizens, who had made their home in Algeria, took up arms against
the Arabs and French soldiers. Although I did not fully understand the history
of the Algerian war, I was in France during the period just following it, and
knew there was still a problem. A lot of people had died, and there was still a
lot of hatred among the French against their own country for being forced out
of Algeria. The mystery does go into more detail about that period, but we
don’t learn who the killer is, or why he’s killing certain men from that period,
until the end of the story.
The author writes in a smooth, flowing style that
makes this 432-page novel read more like a 200-page quick read. The writing is
brilliant, and the characters are well drawn and provocative. This was a
page-turner, and hard to put down till the last page. Highly recommended for
readers who love a good mystery.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
