Maigret and the Madwoman'He hadn't seen her arrive. She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Police Judiciaire, where the small staff cars were parked. She ventured as far as the entrance, looked the officer up and down, then turned round and walked away towards the Pont Neuf' When an old lady tells Maigret someone has been moving things in her apartment, she is dismissed as a fantasist until a schocking event proves

When the spaceship opens and reveals a mysterious alien

his estate agent

when the merest suggestion of witchcraft can see someone tortured and hanged

she's not speaking to her father

In the wake of the Great Hyperspace Disaster and the heroism of the Jedi

love' Charmaine Wilkerson

a leper mutilated by disease and amputation

claustrophobic and disturbing

And the Aberrant hordes are seemingly without end

as he arrives in the midst of a storm to begin his investigation

'Books like this don't come along very often

'A knockout' Big Issue