Reply To: French detective novels / crime fiction / “polars”

[Laurence Bisot]

Merci Nick for these ideas! I must admit, I need recommendations even for French polars!
However, I know a French “local” author (here local means from the town my family comes from, Vitry-le-François in Champagne) who has written a few gritty crime novels, Armand Gautron (https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Armand-Gautron/324862). His recurrent character, Antoine Landrini, attracts marginals, criminals and trouble like corpses attract flies -;).