- Fiction, Murder, Police, Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg (Fictitious character)
On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut, and despite the common assumption that the crime is a drug-related incident, Commissaire Adamsberg becomes convinced that the deaths are the work of a serial killer with split personalities and enlists the assistance of pathologist Ariane Lagarde to help him unravel the truth.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Fred Vargas
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker, Aufbau Verlag, V. Hamy
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781846551864
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