Jerome K. Jerome Bloks #26

The twenty-sixth installment of Dodier's beloved Belgian series finds Jerome K. Jerome Bloks alone in a moody, moonlit forest, holding up a lantern to illuminate the pale trunk of a birch tree — the title "Het Mes in de Boom" (The Knife in the Tree) hinting at something unsettling hidden in the wood. The atmosphere Dodier conjures on the cover is quietly gripping: bare branches reach into a darkened sky, casting the lone figure in warm light against a cool, shadowy blue. This 2017 Dupuis album looks every bit as atmospheric and carefully crafted as the series' devoted readership has come to expect.