This Night's Foul Work
  • Published: 1 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099507628
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $29.99

This Night's Foul Work

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Another riveting case for that most engaging of contemporary detectives, Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, and another triumph from Fred Vargas, twice winner of the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.

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.
  • Published: 1 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099507628
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.

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Praise for This Night's Foul Work

Fred Vargas ... is rapidly asserting herself as one of the most impressive working crime writers

Metro

Vargas's latest continues on the humorous and original eccentricity of her work

Sunday Herald

If you haven't cottoned on to Vargas's brilliant Adamsberg detective stories, you're missing a treat

Scotland on Sunday

Irresistibly gripping, powerfully written and quite often frightening

The Times

Stylish prose and strong characters

Financial Times

The fascination of Fred Vargas's books is due as much to her characters as her plots... sit back and enjoy

Sunday Telegraph