Used book – Un Beau Crime, Stéphane Denis

A bombshell for the Jospin government: a serving minister, Jacques Maurin-Deplas, is assassinated in his office. Tasked with the investigation, the head of the Criminal Brigade, a worthy successor to Maigret - sharing his fondness for pipes and white wine - will have to work under the combined and contradictory pressures of the Ministry of the Interior, Matignon, the Élysée... In short, from the entire Republic in turmoil. A money affair? A political affair? A dark past for a man closely linked to François Mitterrand? The jealousy of an old countess or the immoderate affection of this forty-something for too-young girls? An amused observer of the political world and a great pasticheur of Simenon, the novelist of French History sketches with infectious pleasure our rulers, thrown into the throes of a dark affair.