Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche #20

Volume 20 of Alain Dodier's long-running Belgian detective series arrives with a cover that sets a genuinely tense mood: a close-up of the red-haired Bloche dominates the foreground, his expression troubled, while behind him a vehicle engulfs in vivid orange flames beneath a smoke-darkened sky — and a lone figure stands atop the wreckage, silhouetted against the inferno. Titled "Fin de contrat," this 2007 Dupuis entry promises the kind of atmospheric thriller storytelling the series does so well. Dodier's clean ligne claire linework gives the fiery scene a striking visual punch that makes this volume hard to pass up.