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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 05/02/2009
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ISBN: 9780099507628
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Length: 416 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
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Weight: 287g
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RRP: £8.99
On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison. Is there a connection between the three cases?
In this mystery, Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against nemeses past and present: Ariane Lagarde, France's foremost pathologist and Adamsberg's enemy since they argued over a case twenty-three years earlier, and Louis Veyrenc, a new recruit with a grudge, who has been assigned the job of protecting the Commissaire's ex-girlfriend. As the different strands of Vargas's compelling story begin to intertwine, events move towards a gripping climax...
Shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 05/02/2009
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ISBN: 9780099507628
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Length: 416 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
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Weight: 287g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Fred Vargas ... is rapidly asserting herself as one of the most impressive working crime writers"
Metro
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"Stylish prose and strong characters"
Financial Times
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"Irresistibly gripping, powerfully written and quite often frightening"
The Times
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"The fascination of Fred Vargas's books is due as much to her characters as her plots... sit back and enjoy"
Sunday Telegraph
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"If you haven't cottoned on to Vargas's brilliant Adamsberg detective stories, you're missing a treat"
Scotland on Sunday
