French #novel. Staccato sentences. Words. One. Perhaps two. Enough.

Opening scene. Man smoking. Cigar. Long description. Detailed. Lingering. Too long. Enough about the damn cigar.

Murdered. That happens a lot.

Weather, too. Patterns on window panes, like an overdone simile. Adjective. Words I don't know. My #French is crap. How many words for cigarette butt? Come on now.

Twenty-three chapters in. Smoking in twenty-one. Everyone smokes. And drinks 🚬