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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…

Si è mobilitata tutta l'Anticrimine del tredicesimo arrondissement di Parigi sul caso dei due apparenti suicidi. Il coltissimo capitano Danglard, grande estimatore di vino bianco, l'energica Violette Retancourt, lo specialista in pesci d'acqua dolce Voisenet. Ma soprattutto lo svagato, irresistibile, «spalatore di nuvole», il commissario Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. Tutto inizia col ritrovamento di due corpi e la scoperta di uno strano simbolo scarabocchiato accanto a ciascuno di essi. Ma come sempre accade nelle storie di Fred Vargas, questo non è che l'avvio di una avventura che finirà per snodarsi in mezza Europa tra una balzana setta di adepti della Rivoluzione francese e una gita in Islanda finita in tragedia. «Conosceva Adamsberg da abbastanza tempo per sapere che, nel suo caso, la parola "riflettere" non aveva alcun significato. Adamsberg non rifletteva, non si sedeva da solo a un tavolo, impugnando una matita, non si concentrava davanti a una finestra, non ricapitolava i fatti su un tabellone, con frecce e cifre, non appoggiava il mento su una mano. Vagolava, camminava senza far rumore, ciondolava da un ufficio all'altro, commentava, andava avanti e indietro a passi lenti, ma nessuno l'aveva mai visto riflettere. Sembrava un pesce alla deriva. No, un pesce non va alla deriva, un pesce persegue il suo obiettivo. Adamsberg faceva pensare piuttosto a una spugna, sballottata dalle correnti. Ma quali correnti?»

Armed only with a counterfeit 100-Euro note, Ajatashatru the fakir, renowned conjurer and trickster, lands in Paris. His mission? To acquire a splendid new bed of nails. His destination? IKEA. And there he decides to stay, finding an obliging wardrobe in which to lay his head. Only when he emerges from his slumber does he discover that he is locked in, unable to free himself and heading for England in the back of a truck. So begins a magnificent and bizarre adventure for the intrepid fakir. Even while he flees the revenge-crazed taxi driver whom he conned on his arrival, and falls further in love with Marie Rivière, the Parisian beauty whom he tricked into lunching with him, he finds time to befriend a group of Sudanese immigrants, travel to Italy in a suitcase, write a novel on a shirt, and fly to Libya in a hot air balloon. Witty, moving, surprising and joyful, this novel reminds us that heroism abounds, and is to be found in the most unlikely of places.

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.

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. When Kehlweiler takes his find to the nearest police station, he faces ridicule. Obsessed by the fragment, he follows the trail to the tiny Breton fishing village of Port-Nicolas – in search of a dog. But when he recruits ‘evangelists’ Marc and Mathias to help, they find themselves facing even bigger game. A THREE EVANGELISTS NOVEL

'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.