It’s the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is full of tourists. Sebag and Molina, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day’s misdemeanors and petty complaints at the Perpignan police headquarters without a trace of enthusiasm. Out of the blue a young Dutch woman is brutally murdered on a beach at Argelès, and another disappears without a trace in the alleys of the city. A serial killer obsessed with Dutch women? Maybe. The media goes wild. Gilles Sebag finds himself thrust into the middle of a diabolical game. If he intends to salvage something—anything—he will have to put aside his domestic cares, forget his suspicions of his wife’s unfaithfulness, ignore his heart murmur, and get over his existential angst. “He waits joylessly, patiently, and lets himself go. The stone house may end up being his grave. Who’s doing what, who’s chasing who? Who is the mouse, and who’s the cat?”

Philippe Georget
Philippe Georget was born in 1962. He works as a TV news anchorman for France-3. A passionate traveler, in 2001 he explored the entire length of the Mediterranean shoreline with his wife and their three children in an RV. He lives in Perpignan. Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored, his debut novel, won the SNCF Crime Fiction Prize and the City of Lens First Crime Novel Prize.

• Nov 13 2015
  Mediterranean Noir-Nouveau
  — Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
• Apr 4 2014
  Mrs. Peabody Investigates: World Noir Round-Up
  
• Jan 13 2014
  Bookreporter.com: Selects Summertime All the Cats Are Bored as one of the Top Ten International Mysteries of 2013
  
• Dec 31 2013
  Eurocrime: Norman Price's Favourite Discovery of 2013
  
• Dec 8 2013
  Star Tribune: "Georget provides great details along with a pace that lets the reader soak up those late-night swims and wine-soaked dinners in the end-of-summer Mediterranean heat."
  
• Aug 6 2013
  Crime Fiction Lover: "...a delightful summer read."