Pietr The Latvian

Short Review: I read this on John Wilson's (Books and Culture editor) recommendation. Penguin is doing new translations of the whole (more than 100 volume) series. I like starting at the beginning so I knew that this was not one of his best rated books. It is a solid short mystery.

But there was on line that keeps stilling with me. Maigret says he looks for the person's normal humanity (my paraphrase), while most detectives look for the criminal. Maigret usually finds the criminal while looking for their humanity, but other detectives may miss the criminal because at heart everyone has a human side.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/pietr-the-latvian/