If what I’m reading here is correct, I then asked the sacristan, after clearing my throat, You, Monsieur Beck, are the one who first noticed the theft? He furrowed his brow. The theft?… he repeated, sounding disconcerted and turning towards the priest as though he needed him to translate what I’d said. You mean the kidnapping, Father Steiger said, trying to catch my eye in the rear-view mirror.

A snowy, freezing-cold winter’s night. A sleepy town. A private eye - the narrator – arrives on the scene for a very strange investigation. This shy detective doesn’t like to bother his fellow men. But he’s broke and isn’t really accustomed to this job. He comes across more like someone who feels cornered…

J’enquête is the latest novel from Joël Egloff. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with his off-beat characters, his poetry, and his sense of the absurd.

A man is leading an investigation. Around him, everything is opaque. He himself seems quite strange, too… In Joël Egloff’s latest novel, the absurd, poetry and humor reign.