Nick<p>Also, avoiding spoilers, the ending shows that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Maigret" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maigret</span></a> books are not Christie-type cosy crime puzzlers, where we meet several suspects and get to know them in detail to choose the killer</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Simenon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Simenon</span></a> instead uses the police procedural to explore the (often poignant) world of the victim or those close to them, with little interest in the actual murderer.</p><p>I feel like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sj%C3%B6wallandWahl%C3%B6%C3%B6" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SjöwallandWahlöö</span></a> did this with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MartinBeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MartinBeck</span></a>, but to a clearer political purpose. Simenon was a great writer but with less noble aims.</p>