A review by batbones
How's the Pain? by Pascal Garnier

1.0

I did not like this. I was lured to try it out by John Banville's comment that he wrote like Simenon, whom I admire. I was annoyed by the lack of resemblance and I didn't find the story itself riveting even though I wanted to like and appreciate it for what it was. It's not really a crime story in the usual sense of the genre, although crimes are committed.