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The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France’s multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star ‘Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain’ ANN CLEEVES ‘Absorbing… Full of twists and spiced with Vargas’s characteristic wit and style’ PETER ROBINSON ‘Vargas’s books are…cunning, corkscrew murder mysteries’ A.J. FINN After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn’t long before Adamsberg is investigating a series of rumours and allegations that take him to the south of France. Decades ago, at La Miséricorde orphanage, shocking events took place involving the same species of spider: the recluse. For Adamsberg, these haunting crimes hold the key to proving that the three men were targeted by an ingenious serial killer. His team, however, is not convinced. He must put his reputation on the line to trace the murderer before the death toll rises…

In Parijs worden kort na elkaar twee doden aangetroffen. Alles wijst op zelfmoord, op één ding na: het vreemde symbool dat in de buurt van beide slachtoffers wordt gevonden. Is het de letter H, of moet het soms een guillotine voorstellen? Wanneer commissaris Adamsberg erbij wordt gehaald, ontdekt hij nog een overeenkomst: jaren geleden hebben beide slachtoffers deelgenomen aan dezelfde, met mysteriën omgeven reis naar IJsland. Terwijl in Parijs de moorden op het voormalige reisgezelschap doorgaan, vertrekken Adamsberg en zijn team naar het hoge noorden. Wat is daar ooit gebeurd? Zullen de ijsnevelen rond deze zaak ooit optrekken?

One day a fakir leaves his small village in India and lands in Paris. A professional con artist, the fakir is on a pilgrimage to IKEA, where he intends to obtain an object he covets above all others: a brand new bed of nails. Without adequate Euros in the pockets of his silk trousers, the fakir is all the same confident that his counterfeit 100-Euro note (printed on one side only) and his usual bag of tricks will suffice. But when a swindled cab driver seeks his murderous revenge, the fakir accidentally embarks on a European tour, fatefully beginning in the wardrobe of the iconic Swedish retailer. As his journey progresses in the most unpredictable of ways, the fakir finds unlikely friends in even unlikelier places. To his surprise - and to a Bollywood beat - the stirrings of love well up in the heart of our unlikely hero, even as his adventures lead to profound and moving questions of the perils of emigration and the universal desire to seek a better life in an often dangerous world.

Nell'afa della Città eterna, le stanze della Biblioteca Vaticana sembrano coprire delitti ben più torbidi del furto di un disegno di Michelangelo. La mano ferma e ironica di Fred Vargas tesse qui un giallo raffinato e potente. Con un vescovo un po' eccentrico sul punto di diventare cardinale, diplomatici, esperti e mercanti d'arte, una bellissima parigina che fa troppi viaggi a Roma, e tre studenti francesi che l'adorano. E dove il segreto più oscuro, come sempre, è nascosto nelle profondità del cuore.

‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, rapists, those with serious crimes on their conscience, meeting a grisly end following a visitation by the riders. Soon after the young woman’s vision a notoriously vicious and cruel man disappears. Although the case is far outside his jurisdiction, Adamsberg agrees to investigate the strange happenings in a village terrorised by wild rumours and ancient feuds.

All'origine del «caso Vargas», che ha scalato le classifiche in Francia e in Europa, ci sono il linguaggio terso, lo stile ironico e incisivo, e l'accuratezza nei dettagli sorprendenti. I personaggi, atipici e logorati dalla vita, sono sempre pronti a battersi. Il commissario Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, protagonista amato dai lettori, si muove nel mondo del distretto di polizia del XIII arrondissement. Definito «spalatore di nuvole», antirazionale e filosofico, Adamsberg preferisce un approccio zigzagante, brancolando nel buio fino a raggiungere intuizioni geniali, lontane dalla logica classica dell'investigatore. La sua prima apparizione avviene mentre indaga su misteriosi cerchi tracciati sui marciapiedi di Parigi, dove sente che presto comparirà un cadavere. Nel secondo romanzo, deve affrontare una serie di orrendi delitti, potenzialmente opera di un lupo mannaro. L'ultimo romanzo di questa trilogia lo coinvolge in un intricato caso ricco di simboli e superstizioni, che affondano nei tempi bui della Morte Nera. La trilogia include: L'uomo dei cerchi azzurri, L'uomo a rovescio e Parti in fretta e non tornare.

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. With him are a young sergeant, Estalère, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard. Just outside the baroque and romantic old Highgate cemetery a pile of shoes is found. Not so strange in itself, but the shoes contain severed feet. As Scotland Yard's investigation begins, Adamsberg and his colleagues return home and are confronted with a massacre in a suburban home. Adamsberg and Danglard are drawn in to a trail of vampires and vampire-hunters that leads them all the way to Serbia, a place where the old certainties no longer apply.

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case, he must call in a favour from the pathologist Ariane Lagarde, someone he had come up against twenty-three years previously.

Louis Kehlweiler is kortgeleden ontslagen als ambtenaar op het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken. Daar hield hij zich bezig met 'mijnen vegen', het ophelderen van moeilijke misdaden. Op een dag vindt hij een verdacht botje onder een boom waar hij de vorige avond nog een hondendrol had zien liggen. Hebben botje en drol iets met elkaar te maken? Zijn 'assistent' Marc Vandoosler, een werkloze mediëvist, ontdekt een aanknopingspunt als hij leest dat aan de kust van Bretagne het lijk van een vrouw is aangespoeld...

'De welwillenden' is het verslag van Max Aue, een SS'er die tot in de hoogste rangen opklimt en minutieus vertelt over de cruciale rol die hij heeft gespeeld bij de Endlösung der Judenfrage. Dit boek heeft internationaal veel losgemaakt, is bejubeld en vergeleken met 'Oorlog en vrede' van Tolstoj en Claude Lanzmanns film 'Shoah'. Een internationale bestseller waarvan alleen al in Frankrijk meer dan een miljoen exemplaren zijn verkocht.