Two couples buy into a retirement community which is unsettling in its emptiness, save for a sinister groundskeeper and a stoned activities coordinator; and then when a single woman moves in, civility is abruptly ripped away in Pascal Garnier's Moon in a Dead Eye.
Garnier was a French noir writer whose novels veer from dark comedy to bleak tragedy, and even with the unusual setting and characters (elderly in a retirement community) this one follows that formula. There is murder, sex, animal cruelty, and a fire of unknown origin just to mention the top few plot points. And the novel's title does not refer to the moon in a dead eye for artistic sake alone.
I enjoy French noir in films and novels and am quickly becoming a Garnier fan as more of his work appears in English. I got this one in a collection called Gallic Noir Volume 2 and read the slender volume quickly.
Garnier was a French noir writer whose novels veer from dark comedy to bleak tragedy, and even with the unusual setting and characters (elderly in a retirement community) this one follows that formula. There is murder, sex, animal cruelty, and a fire of unknown origin just to mention the top few plot points. And the novel's title does not refer to the moon in a dead eye for artistic sake alone.
I enjoy French noir in films and novels and am quickly becoming a Garnier fan as more of his work appears in English. I got this one in a collection called Gallic Noir Volume 2 and read the slender volume quickly.
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