RIP #1

From Gaet's and Monier comes this unsettling opener to a French crime series with a distinctly macabre atmosphere. The cover sets the tone immediately: a solitary figure in a full white hazmat suit and green gloves stands in a decaying, wallpaper-peeling room swarming with flies, projecting quiet dread rather than loud menace. Subtitled Derrick — Je ne survivrai pas à la mort ("I will not survive death"), this first volume from Éditions Petit à Petit promises a darkly compelling look at someone who works, quite literally, in the shadow of death.