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A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL. A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland. How are these d ...Show more
A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both vi ...Show more
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Adamsberg travels to London, where a routine conference draws him into a disturbing investigation. Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. Accompanying him are Estalere, a young sergeant, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Ch ...Show more
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Mysteries
From the #1 bestselling French author and three-time winner of the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award. When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't h ...Show more
An Uncertain Place: Adamsberg 6 by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
Severed feet are found outside Highgate Cemetery; a violent murder is committed in Paris - can Commissaire Adamsberg unravel the links between these two cases? Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, ac ...Show more
Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-cop Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A small white object, surrounded by the excrement of local dogs. A piece of bone. Human bone, in fact. Naturally, when Kehlweiler takes his find t ...Show more
Dog Will Have His Day: Three Evangelists Bk 2 by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Three Evangelists Ser.
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger How Do You Solve A Murder Without A Body? Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A tiny piece of bone. Human bone, in fact. ...Show more
GLASS BEAD GAME by Vargas Fred
Category: General Fiction
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century,The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised ...Show more
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
Each day, in honour of a Parisian tradition, a town crier calls out the local news to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days a number of disturbing messages are slipped in to his box, messages of portentous and malicious intent referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared o ...Show more
Have Mercy on Us All (tr David Bellos) by Fred Vargas
Category: unmapped
Joss le Guern is a town crier in Paris's 14th arrondissement. He calls out the local news three times a day to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days, however, a number of enigmatic and disturbing messages are slipped in to the daily news, and he becomes increasingly alarmed. Superintendent ...Show more
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
Category: Fiction
Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according ...Show more
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
Category: Fiction | Series: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries (Paperback)
A small mountain community in the French Alps is roused to terror when they awaken each morning to find yet another of their sheep with its throat torn out. One of the villagers thinks it might be a werewolf, and when she's found killed in the same manner, people begin to wonder if she might have been r ...Show more