Used book – Le Joli mois de mai, Emilie de Turckheim

In this lovely month of May, Monsieur Louis is resting under a tree, with a bullet in his throat. In his will, he bequeaths his country house – which he had turned into a hunting lodge – and all his possessions to five of his former clients. Arriving from the city, the heirs gather around Aimé, the simple-minded but not-so-naive handyman of the house. They are waiting for the notary… who never arrives. A crooked couple, a police inspector, a soldier, and a gay brothel owner: do these guests have nothing in common but greed?

The macabre feast begins, like a Chabrol-esque closed-room drama. A cruel fable with biting humor and love. Le Point Émilie de Turckheim's Le Joli Mois de mai resembles a game of Cluedo, with superbly scattered clues. Cosmopolitan