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Fred Vargas
Full Series List in Order
A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery
1 - The Chalk Circle Man (Jan-2009)2 - Seeking Whom He May Devour (Nov-2004)
3 - Have Mercy on Us All (Nov-2004)
4 - Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Jan-2007)
5 - This Night's Foul Work (Jan-2008)
6 - An Uncertain Place (Oct-2011)
7 - The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (Jun-2013)
8 - A Climate of Fear (Mar-2017)
9 - This Poison Will Remain (Aug-2019)
Three Evangelists
1 - The Accordionist (Sep-2017)Book List in Order: 12 titles
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Have Mercy on Us All
- Nov-2004
- / Police Procedural
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In a small Parisian square, the ancient tradition of the town crier continues into modern times. The self-appointed crier, Joss Le Guern, reads out the daily news, snippets of gossip, and lately, ominous messages -- placed in his handmade wooden mess...
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Seeking Whom He May Devour
- Nov-2004
- / Police Procedural
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Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of ...
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The Three Evangelists
- Feb-2006
- / Suspense
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The opera singer Sophia Siméonidis 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, and three impecunious historians, Ma...
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Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
- Jan-2007
- / Police Procedural
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“Wildly imaginative.” -- The New York Times“Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action.” -- Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks seriesThree wounds in a perf...
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This Night's Foul Work
- Jan-2008
- / Police Procedural
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On the edge of Paris two small-time drug dealers have had their throats cut in a peculiar fashion. Setting out on the trail of the shadowy killer, Commissaire Adamsberg and his detectives travel between Paris and the Normandy countryside. Adamsberg's...
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The Chalk Circle Man
- Jan-2009
- / Police Procedural
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Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with iron-clad alibis; he appears permanently distracted. The Chalk Circ...
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An Uncertain Place
- Oct-2011
- / Police Procedural
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When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet disco...
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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
- Jun-2013
- / Police Procedural
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More than ten million copies of Fred Vargas’s Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries have been sold worldwide. Now, American readers are getting hooked on the internationally bestselling author’s unsettling blend of crime and the supernatural. As the...
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Dog Will Have His Day
- Apr-2014
- / Thriller
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Shortlisted for the CWA International DaggerHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the ...
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A Climate of Fear
- Mar-2017
- / Police Procedural
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A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body...
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The Accordionist
- Sep-2017
- / General Fiction
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When two Parisian women are shockingly murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer, who was seen outside both of the apartments in question. It seems on the surface like an open-and-shut case. But now Clément h...
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This Poison Will Remain
- Aug-2019
- / Police Procedural
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Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nimes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider, in the new novel by the #1 bestselling French crime writer A murder in Paris brings Commis...