Blogs in September 2023

Solea 29th September 2023

(Marseilles Trilogy, 3) The third and final installment in the remarkable Marseilles Trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo), Soleacontinues Jean-Claude Izzo’s distinctive brand of vibrant crime writing, skillfully evoking a time and place that has captured the hearts and imaginations of...

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Total Chaos 29th September 2023

(Marseilles Trilogy, 1) Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in...

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Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil 5th February 2021

A short sublime book on the three things dearest to Jean-Claude Izzo’s heart: his native Marseilles, the sea in all its splendor, and Mediterranean noir–the literary genre his books helped to found. This collection of writings shows Izzo, author...

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One Helluva Mess 1st January 1970

This is the same book as “Total Chaos”. Inspector Montale is forced to revisit his childhood in order to solve a crime

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