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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

The Erasers

The Erasers - Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard

bookshelves: winter20092010, published-1964, france, mystery-thriller, books-with-a-passport

Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Moxysox
Recommended for: Post onto Clare
Read in December, 2009

 

In the dimness of the café, the manager is arranging the tables and chairs, the ashtrays, the siphons of soda water; it is six in the morning.

You know how we were on about Rashomon Effect just the other day...


Love it - took some time working out how it should be read and then I was off and it was an exciting ride

 

The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin.