Maigret is drawn out of retirement when a young woman is found dead in the Seine and her grandmother turns up at his door. The twenty-sixth book in the new Penguin Maigret series. Two years into his retirement at Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret has yet to come across a case compelling enough to tempt him back into the business. But when 18-year-old Monita Malik is found dead in the Seine River, he is all but ordered to the small town of Orsennes by the girl s grandmother. There, Maigret encounters Ernest Malik, an old acquaintance from his school days whom he s always disliked on instinct, and it quickly becomes clear that Maigret s presence is not welcome in Orsenne. When others from Orsenne s elite families begin to go missing as well, Maigret can t help but be swept up in the mystery."