Have Mercy on Us All : A Novel (Paperback)

from kerns222

Another slow-baked, almost fun, quirky mystery. The Fred Vargas formula is getting clearer as I read more of her books: Dwell on a set of offbeat characters--not crazy, but out of the ordinary. Stick them in a location in France that you cover in detail for the next 300 plus pages. Have strange e...

from cameling

Chief Inspector Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is puzzled by some reverse 4s appearing on the doors of some apartments in Paris and when 2 men bring him a series of cryptic notes left for the town crier, notes written in text out from different centuries, he is flummoxed but not alarmed..... that is, un...

from cathyskye

First Line: When manie wormes breede of putrefaction of the earth: toade stooles and rotten herbes abound: The fruites and beastes of the earth are unsavoury: The wine becomes muddie: manie birds and beastes flye from that place.... In a small Parisian neighborhood the age-old tradition of the to...

from 30oddyearsofzan

I feel like I didn't enjoy this one as much as I did. Possibly because I came to it straight from Atonement, which is the best thing I've read this year so far, and partly because of some perceived clunkiness of the translation, it felt like harder going. But nevertheless this is an engrossing my...

from lriley

French noirish type of novel. Plot revolves around a conspiracy by a would be serial killing family using the black plague to spread panic throught Paris as a cover to take its revenge on a group of thugs who humiliated one of its members. The hapless homicide detective Adamsberg is the man given...