Best Fred Vargas
Have Mercy on Us All is a crime novel by French writer Fred Vargas featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. In Paris, cryptic symbols appear on doors while a public crier is paid to recite messages warning that plague has returned. When deaths begin to follow, Adamsberg investigates whether th...
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand is a crime novel by French writer Fred Vargas featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. The investigation revives Adamsberg's memories of a series of killings attributed to a figure associated with a three-pronged weapon, while suspicion threatens to turn towa...
This Night's Foul Work is a detective novel by French writer Fred Vargas featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. First published in French in 2006, it follows Adamsberg and his Paris-based police team as they investigate disturbing deaths whose connections emerge only gradually. Grave desecra...
The Chalk Circle Man is the first crime novel by French writer Fred Vargas to feature Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. Originally published in French in 1991, it follows Adamsberg after mysterious blue chalk circles begin appearing around discarded objects on Paris streets and the apparently ecc...
