The Snow Was Dirty, (Paperback)

from William345

This is wonderful. It's the first Simenon I ever read and I found it vivid, engaging and moving. Dirty Snow is my second favorite Simenon, outranked only by The Strangers In The House.

from stef7sa

wow how dark and dirty can you get? Simenon surpasses the likes of Camus, Kafka in this bleak novel. close to five stars, its just the third part gets a bit annoying, but how to describe a senseless life in an interesting way? excellent afterword. there is just one tiny spark of light in this nov...

from arubabookwoman

It's winter in an occupied country. Frank, a 19-year old living on the fringes in the brothel his mother runs, wants to kill someone because every else has. Somehow, I had envisioned Simenon as the writer of somewhat tidy police procedurals, but this is deep, dark noir, as unlike a "cozy" mystery...

from MacsTomes

Fascinating character development. Simenon never, ever fails to paint a vivid picture of characters setting.

from Hagelstein

Frank is nineteen years old in a city under an occupying force, presumably Paris during WWII. He lives on the fringes of society, even more so than others in the city. His mother runs a brothel that's popular with the occupying army. Frank beds the girls as his due and lives large through crime. ...