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A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder 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 of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both vi ...Show more
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
39.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Adamsberg travels to London, where a routine conference draws him into a disturbing investigation. Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. Accompanying him are Estalere, a young sergeant, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Ch ...Show more
Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas
36.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-cop Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A small white object, surrounded by the excrement of local dogs. A piece of bone. Human bone, in fact. Naturally, when Kehlweiler takes his find t ...Show more
Dog Will Have His Day: Three Evangelists Bk 2 by Fred Vargas
26.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Three Evangelists Ser.
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger How 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 pavement. A tiny piece of bone. Human bone, in fact. ...Show more
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg | Reading Level: very good
Each day, in honour of a Parisian tradition, a town crier calls out the local news to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days a number of disturbing messages are slipped in to his box, messages of portentous and malicious intent referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared o ...Show more
Have Mercy on Us All (tr David Bellos) by Fred Vargas
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Joss le Guern is a town crier in Paris's 14th arrondissement. He calls out the local news three times a day to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days, however, a number of enigmatic and disturbing messages are slipped in to the daily news, and he becomes increasingly alarmed. Superintendent ...Show more
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according ...Show more
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
26.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good
In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves. Disturbing things have been happening up in the French mountains; more and more sheep are being ...Show more
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is high ...Show more
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
"Winner of the 2009 CWA International Dagger Award ean-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 cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Novel by Fred Vargas
36.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Norman ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel by Fred Vargas
26.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, r ...Show more