Snow Was Dirty

''Feels incredibly modern... it is brutal, frank about sex and violence, and will make your flesh creep'' Ian Rankin

A brilliant new translation of Simenon''s critically acclaimed masterpiece.

''And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage ... unable to cover the filth.''

Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by...