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A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
$37.00 NZD
Category: 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
Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas
$36.99 NZD
Category: 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: 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
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
Seeking Whom He May Devour: Adamsberg 2 by Fred Vargas
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 Accordionist by Fred Vargas
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
When two Parisian women are shockingly murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer, who was seen outside both of the apartments in question. It seems on the surface like an open-and-shut case. But now Clement has disappeared from public view. His likeness has appeared ...Show more
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
$28.99 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: Fiction | 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
This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg 5 | Reading Level: very good
"On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case, he must call in a favour from the ...Show more
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