The Yellow Dog by Simenon (Inspector Maigret series)

 

Small town suspicions abound in this tiny seaside village where a man is shot, sending the town into panic,  rumors abound and an appearance of a scruffy yellow dog adds to the mystery.

1930s France and the Inspector is pulled from Rennes to solve this murder. Seemingly being at the wrong place at the wrong time or mistaken identity seems to be the general way of thinking. But the strange combo of characters, seemingly very different but very familiar with each other strikes Inspector Maigret as odd and he tries to find the reasoning behind this.

The story moves at a slow pace but the elements of revenge and love and murder are hard to resist.

Sent by Farrah Straus & Giroux for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.