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A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL. A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland. How are these d ...Show more
An Uncertain Place: Adamsberg 6 by Fred Vargas
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
Severed feet are found outside Highgate Cemetery; a violent murder is committed in Paris - can Commissaire Adamsberg unravel the links between these two cases? Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, ac ...Show more
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
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
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg 5
"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
This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers." -MARTIN WALKER, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police series A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly in ...Show more
This Poison Will Remain: Adamsberg 9 by Fred Vargas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
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 wildly imaginative series."--The New York Times"Adamsberg is a terrific creation and h ...Show more
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime ...Show more
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