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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 desecration, relics, superstition, and an adversary linked to Adamsberg's past contribute to a case shaped by the series' characteristic mixture of police procedure and eccentric mystery.
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What connects the grave robbery and murders in This Night's Foul Work?
Commissaire Adamsberg investigates a disturbed grave alongside violent deaths that seem to involve an elusive female killer. The apparent supernatural pattern gradually leads toward human motives and an older chain of violence.
Where does This Night's Foul Work fit in the Adamsberg series?
Fred Vargas published the French novel in 2006 under the title Dans les bois éternels. It follows Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand in the Commissaire Adamsberg sequence.
Who investigates the deaths in This Night's Foul Work?
The lead investigator is Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg of the Paris Serious Crime Squad. His intuitive approach is balanced by Commandant Danglard's more methodical knowledge and skepticism.
Is This Night's Foul Work a conventional police procedural?
It uses police work, autopsies, and linked crime scenes, but Fred Vargas also builds the mystery around folklore and apparently impossible connections. That unusual atmosphere distinguishes Adamsberg from more strictly procedural detectives such as Inspector Maigret.
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