The Flemish House: Georges Simenon

She wasn`t an ordinary supplicant. She didn`t lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was rightfully hers.

`If you don`t agree to look at our case, my parents and I will be lost, and it will be the most hateful legal error...`

Maigret is asked to the windswept, rainy border town of Givet by a young woman desperate to clear her family of murder. But their well-kept shop, the sleepy community and its raging river all hide their own mysteries.

This novel has been published in a previous translation as The Flemish Shop.