# Letter to My Judge

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- Book: [Letter to My Judge](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/letter-to-my-judge) ([Letter to My Judge.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/letter-to-my-judge.md))
- Authors: [Georges Simenon](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4180-809-2
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

My dear Judge, I would like one man, just one, to understand me. And I really hope that man can be you. In a small town in western France, Dr Charles Alavoine seems to lead the perfect life: his own medical practice, two beautiful children, a new wife and a doting mother. Yet as each quiet day of bourgeois conformity passes, Alavoine begins to feel a sharp sense of futility and solitude. Then, one rainy day in December, he meets a mysterious young woman on a station platform. Fascinated by her innocence and the scars of her past, Alavoine’s passion soon gives way to obsession, as he is drawn deeper into a web of desire and deceit, ending in a terrible act that will forever change the course of his life. First published in 1947, Letter to My Judge is a masterful exploration of the darkest corners of the human soul, and a harrowing exorcism of Simenon’s phantoms.