Trans: Sian Reynolds
ISBN:9781846550638 DDC: 843.914
See also: Librarything ; International Noir Fiction ; EuroCrime ; The Dewey Divas and the Dudes
By fixing his curtain to one side with a clothes peg, Lucio could better observe the new neighbour at his leisure.
As you may already know I’m a big fan of Fred Vargas’ work and while this one is a library copy I’ll be buying this when it comes out in the proper size. I can’t stand these trade publications versions. They make no sense to me. All the negatives of a hardback with none of the positives. But enough about that; on to the plot.
The most straight-forward way of describing this book is to say that it is a murder-mystery. But with characters like Adamsberg there is no such thing as a straight-forward case. So when he spots something a little “off” about the two bodies that have shown up he decides that this case his rather than giving them over to the Drugs Squad.
Tags: 8 Stars, Adamsberg, crime, detective, Fred Vargas, French, murder, mystery, Sian Reynolds, This night's foul work, translated
