Du plomb pour les garces #1

From Mangin and Malnati comes this gritty French crime series opener, Du plomb pour les garces — "Bullets for the Bitches" — that sets a sun-baked, desert tone right from its striking cover. A confident woman in black stands front and center beside a police cruiser, a weathered man leaning against it behind her, while a lone shovel planted in the arid ground hints at trouble buried just beneath the surface. This first installment, published by Soleil in 2011, promises a hard-edged neo-Western atmosphere that fans of crime fiction won't want to miss.