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 into his box, messages of portentous and malicious intent referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared on the doors of several buildings: symbols once used to ward off the plague. Detective Commissaire Adamsberg begins to sense a connection, even a grotesque menace. Then charred and flea-bitten corpses are found. The press seizes on their plague-like symptoms, and the panic sets in. From the Trade Paperback edition.

HAVE MERCY ON US ALL (A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

FRED VARGAS

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books

Seeking Whom He May Devour

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Vintage

Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree - both because they need the money and out of sheer curiosity - to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there. They find nothing but soil. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend? Or could it be her lovely niece recently moved to the capital? They all seem to have a motive. Vandoosler and the three evangelists set out to find the truth.

The Three Evangelists

Contemporary

Vintage Books USA

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Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand (Commissaire Adamsberg)

This Nights Foul Work

World Literature

Non Basic Stock Line

The second book by a major international mystery writer: this "exciting and careful whodunit is well-executed, page turning crime fiction" (Publishers Weekly). 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 right. Suspicion falls on Massart, a loner living on the edge of town. The murdered woman's adopted son, one of her shepherds, and her new friend Camille decide to pursue Massart, who has conveniently disappeared. Their ineptness for the task soon becomes painfully obvious, and they summon Commissaire Adamsberg from the city to bring his exceptional powers of intuition to bear on layer upon layer of buried hatred and secrets. France's queen of crime writing pits the maverick genius of Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg against ancient, primal fears in a novel that "establishes Vargas as one of the most unusual voices in European crime fiction" (The Sunday Times [London]).

Seeking Whom He May Devour: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Investigates (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries (Paperback))

Literary

Simon&Schuster

Penguin/Random House

An Uncertain Place

AudioGO

Trois morts, c'est exact, dit Danglard. Mais cela regarde les medecins, les epidemiologistes, les zoologues. Nous, en aucun cas. Ce n'est pas de notre competence. Ce qu'il serait bon de verifier, dit Adamsberg. J'ai donc rendez-vous demain au Museum d'histoire naturelle. Je ne veux pas y croire, je ne veux pas y croire. Revenez-nous, commissaire. Bon sang mais dans quelles brumes avez-vous perdu la vue ? Je vois tres bien dans les brumes, dit Adamsberg un peu sechement, en posant ses deux mains a plat sur la table. Je vais donc etre net. Je crois que ces trois hommes ont ete assassines. Assassines ? repeta le commandant Danglard. Par l'araignee recluse ?".

Quand sort la recluse (French Edition)

French and European Publications Inc

HARVILL/SECKER

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