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A little old lady, who comes from Normandy, waits for Police Superintendent Adamsberg on the footpath. Altough they have not arranged a meeting, it is with him alone that she wishes to speak.

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This time Adamsberg is in London accompanied by the ridiculously bright Danglar and the ingenuous Estaler. There they find many pairs of shoes with the feet within at the gates of Highgate cemetery. Then he returns to Paris in order to run into ...read more

Vienna. Heat. Ambulances. High speed. Tired from his work as detective, Simon Brenner has became an ambulance driver. But the intricate case is not delaying – one murder, one suspect. Ex-detective Brenner is involved in new ...read more

The Chalk Circle Man (French: L'Homme aux cercles bleus) is a novel by French crime-writer Fred Vargas. It is the first of her Detective Adamsberg series, published in 1996.

The novel describes the background of Adamsberg's move to Paris, ...read more

A new mystery for Adamsberg, a fantastic new novel from Fred Vargas On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of ...read more

This novel establishes unpredictable relations between things; it is a strange story about desire, despair and redemption. The plot is set in Spain and Trinidad and through its characters talks about crime, cinema, prostitution, working class and ...read more

An extremely well-written thriller about crime and passion in new ...read more

A detested television journalist specializing in muckraking has been murdered. Inspector Petra Delicado and her sentimental sidekick Garzón are thrown into the ruthless world of show business, high-society and belligerent celebrities, where ...read more

What do you do when your husband bores you to death? You get a divorce. But if you bore to death your rich husband and you also have evil temperament, absolute dullness and 50 extra kilos? Then you get rid of him, take his money and the ...read more

Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand (French: Sous les vents de Neptune, lit. "Under Neptune's Winds") is a crime novel by French author Fred Vargas, originally published in France in 2004.

The novel is part of her Commissaire Adamsberg ...read more

Math and murder mingle in this intriguingly cerebral mystery. When an Argentine math student at Oxford discovers the smothered body of his landlady, conventional wisdom points to a family member with the most prosaic of motives. But then renowned ...read more

The protagonist is a stranger who comes to town in this gripping country noir set in post-WWII Texas. He arrives in a small town with a nice car and with an even nicer blonde woman. He has a passion for poker and a focused eye on the high-stakes ...read more

This book is not a “dark” crime story, although the corpses are in abundance. The main merits of the novel, as every other work of Joanna Chmielewska, are an inimitable sense of humor and self-irony. The author is able to notice the ...read more

Joss, a middle-aged former Breton sailor, begins to succeed in reviving the old family trade of town crier in modern-day Paris. Business is good, since people gladly pay five francs to hear their rants and nonsensical messages in parks and ...read more