The Judge's House is the 22nd (webpage) or 21st (
SYKM) in the Maigret series by Georges Simenon. It was originally published in English as
Maigret in Exile, but as Penguin has been re-issuing them in ebook, they seem to have been going back to some of the original titles from the French - which was
La maison du juge in this case.
In any case,
House has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XVB9C90
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-judge-s-house-5
Spoiler:
Quote:
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian
Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town
“A short, sprightly man appeared in the doorway, looked left and right, and went back into the passage. A moment later, the improbable happened. The little man reappeared, bent over, clinging to a long mass that he now started dragging through the mud. It must have been heavy. After four meters, he stopped to catch his breath. The front door of the house had been left open. The sea was still twenty or thirty meters away.”
Maigret has been exiled from Paris to a remote province, having offended his superiors. Out of his element, he finds himself utterly bored—until a murder case arrives.
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