Nouveau Policier: Debout Les Morts (Paperback)

from the.ken.petersen

I had never heard of Fred Vargas until some kind person upon Librarything advised me to try her books. This is my first attempt and I am fascinated. The story is very odd concerning a group of young historians who live with the Uncle, a disgraced detective. The beautiful opera singer, living next...

from stevebishop

A new author (to me). I was pleasantly surprised. Quirky, humourous and enjoyable. Set in 90s Paris, but had the feel of a much earlier period. Mathias, Marc and Lucian are three historians whose characters seem to mirror the periods they specialise in. They are nicknamed the three evangelists by...

from cameling

A retired opera singer, Sophia, looks out of her window one day and finds .... a tree. It wasn't there the day before, and it's not a new sapling, but an actual tree. There's no note attached to the tree, or any other clues as to who could have sneaked into her garden to plant the tree. Sophia di...

from jaygheiser

French murder mystery. Interesting, but not entirely engrossing

from kerns222

A playful book that stacks three young, out-of touch, out-of-work researchers into a run-down Paris house, all properly ordered: with prehistoric researcher running naked on the first floor, middle ages on the second, and WW1 on the third. A cashiered detective godfather stays in the attic to rep...