After Pascal and his girlfriend of 9 years break up, he moves into the spare bedroom of a friend's place, where books pile up and up and up. He has lost creative inspiration lately, so his comics making has disappeared and he takes a job doing manual labor, which he's not great at. So it's gotta be running that keeps him afloat -- after all, it makes him feel great. And it's going well until he hurts himself, has to get physical therapy, and then he's no longer able to run.

Lucky for Pascal, he can solve the case of books going missing at the local book shop. When he attends a reading and sees a girl stealing one of his books, he suspects she's the one with sticky fingers the store's been talking about. So he tracks her down and then ... promptly decides he has feelings for her beyond her thievery.

So what does he do when he collects those stolen books and tries returning them to the bookstore? Does he tell his girlfriend he knows her secret? Does he out the girl to the bookstore employees? Does he indict himself in the crime?

This is an amusing graphic novel (in translation!). It's solid, though it's not my favorite. I didn't get to know much of Pascal beyond his being in a really sad place and while that works for a lot of comics -- Julia Wertz springs to mind -- I didn't necessarily feel like there was heart behind this one in the same way. I never connected to his situation nor felt particularly interested in his picking himself up.

A quick read and one that book people would enjoy, though, especially because Pascal has a book hoarding problem of epic proportions and this new relationship is not going to help things.