Status Updates From Dent pour dent: Une enquête...

Third w-bomb! Mid-huge meeting!

Now the noose tightens...but around whose neck? This latest suspect sounds so perfect I can't help but feel...led.

Two, TWO!! w-bombs dropped on me from a clear sky! 64%, 69% mark the Eville Miasma.

But WOW what a lot of good stuff. Marcel might very well be my favorite character of them all, despite/because he's a walk-on. DNA results are so much a part of the story. That comes across very well to me.

Pace never slacks in these books!

"Nico winked at his friend."
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Time of death: 59%

THAT was a hellacious twist! Whoa.

"Parize?" That's nothing I've heard before...not a name I know anything about.

Anonymity by prepaid SIM card is still possible?! Wow.

...wait...who was that speaking?!

Donating his body was clearly Bruno's way of making sure there'd be an autopsy no matter how he was murdered.

And the family, sweet baby jeebus! Poor son, so horrible; but the wife's desperate confusion is heartbreaking.

A bit about the politics of the force, a competing case is coming to a crisis point, the evidence of this crime's hinkyness mounting...and Nico, calm cool collected, handles all the information inputs, details, actions completed/assigned.

A pleasure to read.

Queneau, Marc Walberg, & the sheer verve of the team's interactions almost makes up for the 2nd w-bomb on the next page.

time of death by w-bomb: 19%
intra-collegial w-verbing is against labor laws
constitutes creating a hostile work environment

Ohhh-kaaayyy that was a whopper & it needs some serious explaining. A good clue indeed.

And the personal news, well! Mazel tov, y'all.

In true Molay style, the first whopper comes at the end of chapter four!

I get it...I really do...lots of names, lots of titles, none of then familiar. Take your time, start w/THE 7TH WOMAN, read slowly until they all fit into place.

They will! Paris, her police, the men & women who serve the unexpectedly dead, all have a slot in Molay's stories.

I love the juxtaposition of the grossness of dissection w/the celebratory luncheon they all troop off to eat! Never fails to give me a chuckle.

I realize a lot of readers don't like the catch-you-up parts of procedurals, but I appreciate them...it's been most of a decade since I read THE 7TH WOMAN & no way in hell could I have recalled who these names were attached to w/o a refresher.
...and I've never reviewed that one...yowza