Fred Vargas, Author , trans. from the French by David Bellos. Simon & Schuster $14 (289p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8402-8
Admirers of quirky, atmospheric whodunits will revel in Vargas's creative second mystery featuring Chief Insp. Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg (after 2005's Have Mercy on Us All
). A series of savage attacks on sheep leaves the countryside near the...
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Fred Vargas, trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds. Penguin, $16 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-14-310945-7
In Vargas’s captivating eighth Commissaire Adamsberg mystery (after 2013’s The Ghost Riders of Ordebec), the dreamily brilliant Paris police commissioner, assisted by his baffled, balky team of underlings, investigates the deaths of members of the...
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Fred Vargas, trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds. Penguin, $16 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-14-313366-7
In French author Vargas’s brilliantly twisty ninth whodunit featuring eccentric Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg (after 2016’s A Climate of Fear), Adamsberg, who leads the Paris Serious Crimes Squad, makes quick work of a brutal vehicular...
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Fred Vargas, Author, David Bellos, Translator , trans. from the French by David Bellos. Simon & Schuster $14 (353p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8401-1
A bestseller in France, Vargas's U.S. debut presents a riveting blend of biothriller and historical cryptology: it takes a close look at the threat of bubonic plague to modern-day Paris. Joss Le Guern is a merchant seaman who, following the...
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Fred Vargas, Author, Sian Reynolds, Translator , trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds. Penguin $14 (409p) ISBN 978-0-14-311359-1
The outstanding fourth whodunit to be made available in the U.S. from Vargas (Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
) makes it's easy to see why he's twice won the CWA's International Dagger Award. Paris Commissaire Jean-Baptiste...
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Fred Vargas, Author, Sian Reynolds, Translator , trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds. Penguin $14 (247p) ISBN 978-0-14-311595-3
Fans of Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the sleuth who doesn’t do deductive reasoning, will welcome the first in Vargas’s inspired crime series (This Night’s Foul Work
; Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
), originally...
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Fred Vargas, trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds. Penguin, $15 trade paper (408p) ISBN 978-0-14-312004-9
Bizarre crimes drive Vargas’s excellent sixth Commissaire Adamsberg mystery (after 2008’s The Night’s Foul Work). While in London for a conference, Adamsberg and his commandant, Adrien Danglard, inadvertently share in a macabre discovery: 17 shoes...
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Fred Vargas, trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds. Penguin, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-14-312312-5
As shown in Vargas’s exquisite seventh Commissaire Adamsberg mystery (after 2011’s An Uncertain Place), only Christopher Fowler’s Peculiar Crimes Unit can compare with the Paris policeman’s eccentric colleagues in the Serious Crime Squad, who...
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Fred Vargas, trans. from the French by Siân Reynolds. Harvill Secker (IPG dist.), $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-846559-98-3
Vargas’s stunning conclusion to her Three Evangelists trilogy (after Dog Will Have His Day) rewards the careful reader. In the summer of 1997, Paris is preoccupied with a killer who has attacked two seemingly random female victims, strangling them...
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