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Goat Song (Paperback)

by Chantal Pelletier (Author), Ian Monk (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 290 pages
  • Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press (1 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904738036
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904738039
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 132,483 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The star male dancer of the Moulin Rouge and a beautiful young woman have been murdered. Their naked bodies are found entwined in a blood splattered dressing room. A squatter is killed in a nearby flat, his throat chewed open, the teeth marks human. Seemingly unconnected deaths that reveal a sinister pattern of Montmartre property scams fuelled by crack dealing and prostitution. Inspector Maurice Laice is plagued by a lesbian boss who bombards him with tales of her sexual adventures. Yet they make a good team, each obsessed for different reasons by the crimes at hand. The investigation takes Maurice from murky dealings at the cabaret to the world of organized crime in Corsica and back.


About the Author

Chantal Pelletier, a leading female crime writer in France, began her career as an actor. She founded a theatre company in Paris and is the author of novels, essays, plays and film scripts. It is not unusual to find her engaged simultaneously as author, director and actor in the same project. Ian Monk lives in France. He has translated a number of literary thrillers including four novels by Daniel Pennac and the best-selling novels The Blood-Red Rivers and The Stone Council by J-C Grange.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional, 19 May 2006
By S. J. Blackburn (West Yorks) - See all my reviews
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My preference is for literary crime with good characterisation and as much interest in the characters as in the story itself. Thus I favour James Lee Burke, John Harvey, Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin. This is top drawer crime writing which stands comparison as contemporary literature. I have read many of the bitter lemon press titles and along with Carofiglio, Chantal Pelletier is the best. I can't wait to read more of Maurice Laice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sirens' call to noir fans, 2 Sep 2008
By Pulp Pusher "Pulp Pusher" (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
The seedy side of the City of Light, the artists and the absinth, are only the tip of the iceberg explored in Chantal Pelletier's Goat Song.

Winner of the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir de Cognac, the novel carefully avoids all the police procedural put-offs by being a story first and bumping all the boring bureaucratic staples.

Maurice Laice is a dour Parisian who's been there and done that, but the double killing of a male dancer and a young girl (entwined in a room off the Moulin Rouge) is enough to maintain his interest in the living as he unravels the trail.

A bleak, dark exploration of broken dreams set against the back cloth of the most beautiful city in the world, GOAT SONG is a sirens' call to Noir fans...And one well worth giving in to.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Suspense all the way!! Boy does it keep you guessing.., 22 Mar 2006
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I have just finished this book and I must say it is one of the most enjoyable reads I have had in a long time. It twists and it turns and rather expertly presents a fantastic image of the Parisian undergroud.

You can't help but feel for the main character within this book, the detective Maurice (or More is Less as he is known to his colleagues) as the story unfolds. Murder, love, lies and sex. What more can you want in a gripping book.

This book does have some graphic detail, so be warned if you easily offended.

The only critism I have of this book is that it is far too short. More of the same please!

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