This is another book that I bought some years ago but have only just found the time to read.
It is the first book of the writer's Marseilles trilogy which the introductory eulogy describes
as Mediterranean noir. The difference from other crime novels considered as noirs is that
it deals more with the general background of organised crime rather than the standard
concentration on a single event and its ramifications. It is certainly different from most
crime novels, written in the first person singular by the police detective protagonist. There
are several amorous dalliances to round out his character in the book which deals with his
relationship with two childhood friends who, unlike him, stayed on the criminal side of life.
Their separate deaths provide the impetus for the book which, even with the occasional
digression on the background, is pacy and interesting. The translation reads well as I
suspect that the original may not have been in standard French in view of the setting.
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