Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery This Night's Foul Work, Book 3, (Paperback)

from jkdavies

I have trouble understanding how Adamsberg's theories all fit together here, they seemed so tenuous... From a couple of hoodlums found with syringe marks in their arms, but dirt under their nails, to a sleepy Normandy village with a dead stag; the story floats and swoops until it's unexpected end...

from Scrabblenut

This latest translation of the mysteries of Fred Vargas is again excellent. The characters are quirky and interesting. Commissaire Adamsberg uses philosophy as well as regular clues to solve his mysteries. This one involves supposed ghosts, an "angel of death", and disturbed graves, as well as ri...

from Ameise1

This Vargas wasn't so gripping as the other two I've read earlier (Have Mercy on Us All and The Chalk Circle Man). I really missed Adamsberg's scattiness. He was more present and acting than in the earlier books. Nonetheless I've got to know more about his contributors than ever before and it was...

from mamzel

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is the Commissaire in the Serious Crime Squad and gets to work on a multiple murder, two men with their throats cut. He is a quiet, thoughtful man, who has just moved into a new house. He hears noises that may be a ghost and sees a 'shade'. He is also thinking about how he...

from jeanned

In this installment of Fred Vargas' crime series featuring Commissaire Adamsberg, there is a new member of the Serious Crime Squad: a man who often speaks in twelve-syllable alexandrine verse. Adamsberg's unorthodox hunt for a dissociative serial killer produces rifts between the squad's positivi...