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A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
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
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 by Fred Vargas
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime
Adamsberg travels to London, where a routine conference draws him into a disturbing investigation. Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. Accompanying him are Estalere, a young sergeant, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Ch ...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
Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
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
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
$25.00 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
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries (Paperback)
A small mountain community in the French Alps is roused to terror when they awaken each morning to find yet another of their sheep with its throat torn out. One of the villagers thinks it might be a werewolf, and when she's found killed in the same manner, people begin to wonder if she might have been r ...Show more
The Accordionist by Fred Vargas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
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 Accordionist: Three Evangelists Bk 3 by Fred Vargas; Siân Reynolds (Translator)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: The\Three Evangelists Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like an open-and-shut case. Desperate for a chance to prove his innocence, C ...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