Un Privé à la Cambrousse #2

Bruno Heitz brings his deadpan detective back to the countryside in this second volume, published by Gallimard in 2012. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a rumpled, wide-eyed private eye peers cautiously around a garden gate, flanked by a quirky red-trimmed rural building and bare winter trees — the very picture of a city man thoroughly out of his element. Heitz's clean, expressive linework gives the whole scene a quietly comic charm that's hard to resist.