title: The Investigation: A Novel
author:  Philippe Claudel 
description: "French writer Philippe Claudel begins <i>The Investigation</i> with a postmodernist wink and nod ... The novel is frequently very funny, but it also skillfully evokes the insidious, modern fear that we, like the Investigator, are playing bit parts in some vast, incomprehensible system."<br /><i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br /><br />"Amusing and affecting ... Despite its far-from-realist mode and its parable of life under late capitalism, <i>The Investigation</i> is no allegory. It's too sharp and too funny. And despite its setting in a city that deliberately evokes all cities and no particular city, <i>The Investigation</i> resists every tendency toward ponderous moralism, instead marking each apparent injustice with a light, but never unsympathetic, touch."<br />Bookslut.com<br /><br />Praise for <i>Brodeck<br /><br /></i>"Arrives like a fresh, why-havent-we-known-him discovery, revealing Philippe Claudel to be as dazzling on the page as he is on the screen."<br /><i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />"A haunting, intensely claustrophobic allegory about intolerance, trauma, and guilt."<br /><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br /><br />"Deeply wise and classically beautiful . . . It is a modern masterpiece."<br /><i>The Daily Telegraph<br /></i><br />"Original, brilliant, and disturbing . . . Claudel is a novelist of ideas, in the French tradition."<br /><i>The Times</i> (London)<br /><br />"In John Cullens deft translation, Claudels writing is lucid and passionate. . . . An excellent novel."<br /><i>The Guardian</i>
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  An Agent for Claudette
  
  An Agent for Claudette
  
   _The Pinkerton Matchmaker Series Book #4_
  
  Christine Sterling
  
  An Agent For Claudette
  
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