'Garnier's crime novels add significantly to the latest renaissance for this type of dark narrative' - Publishers WeeklyVolume 1 includes How's the Pain?, the tale of an ageing 'pest exterminator' taking on one last job on the French Riviera; The Panda Theory, in which a stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton town and befriends the locals ... but is he as angelic as he seems?; and The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings modernity close to a flat in which a brother and sister live together, haunted by terminal illness and the events of 1945.