The Investigation

'Written with such relish, inventiveness, imagination and brio, that it is consistently entertaining' Allan Massie, Scotsman. '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' Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal. 'A complex novel of ideas ... [Claudel] has managed a rare trick' David Annand, Daily Telegraph. 'The twists develop with venomous imagination and the wider themes are elegantly explored' David Mills, Sunday Times.