Fred Vargas Libros

Alice Gauthier, una respetable profesora de matemáticas de sesenta y seis años, aparece muerta en su bañera; todo parece apuntar a un suicidio, pero ciertos detalles, como un extraño signo trazado en el lugar del suceso, hacen pensar que quizá haya algo más detrás de su muerte, por lo que el caso es derivado al equipo de la Brigada Criminal del comisario Adamsberg. Al poco, una mujer dice haber enviado una carta que la muerta había escrito a un tal Amadée Masfauré ..., cuyo padre se habría suicidado dejando un signo similar. Las sospechas se confirman al comprobar que ambas muertes tenían algo más en común: las dos víctimas formaban parte de una trágica expedición a una remota e inexplorada isla de Islandia, diez años antes ... Un extraño club de admiradores de Robespierre, viejos rencores familiares, pistas falsas, reminiscencias de antiguos mitos nórdicos ..., y la imbatible sagacidad de Adamsberg y su brigada son los ingredientes de la magnífica nueva obra de la reina de la novela negra europea. (Fuente : Ed. Siruela)

París, una ciudad invadida por el miedo. El comisario Adamsberg investiga las apariciones de unas extrañas inscripciones en las puertas de un edificio parisino: un cuatro invertido y debajo tres letras, CLT. ¿Una mente diabólica, una broma o una amenaza? Joss, un viejo marino bretón, recibe misivas que le avisan dónde estarán las siguientes pintadas. Pánico, rumores, rencor, asesinatos y desconfianza tejen esta memorable intriga policíaca. «Hasta que apareció Fred Vargas, la novela negra no nos interesaba demasiado. Pues bien, con ésta, ha llegado el momento de entonar un mea culpa. Lo que Fred dice nos inquieta, nos conmueve. Su talento de novelista va más allá del género. A partir de hoy, lo juramos: no se nos volverá a escapar.» Marie Claire

«La obra de Vargas es un cocktail de tensión, talento y humor diabólico.» Elle «No habrá lector que no se rinda a sus hechizos, que no se ría, que no se emocione, que no se asombre con cuantos dichos y hechos pasan en Huye rápido, vete lejos, esta deliciosa e inteligente historia de Fred Vargas.» Lola Beccaria, Abc Cultural «Victor, mala suerte, ¿qué haces fuera?» A los parisinos les divierte. Desde hace cuatro meses esta frase acompaña los círculos azules que surgen durante la noche trazados con tiza en las aceras de la ciudad, y en el centro de los círculos, prisioneros, un desecho, un residuo, un objeto perdido: un trombón, una bombilla, una pinza de depilar, un yogur, una pata de paloma... El fenómeno hace las delicias de los periodistas y de algunos psiquiatras que elaboran diferentes teorías. Sin embargo, al comisario Adamsberg no le hace ninguna gracia. Los círculos y su heteróclito contenido «rezuman» crueldad. Él lo sabe, lo siente: pronto ese hecho anodino y estrafalario se convertirá en una tragedia.

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 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.

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

The opera singer Sophia Siméonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there. They find nothing but soil.A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend, her niece? They all seem to have a motive.Vandoosler and the three evangelists set out to find the truth.

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.

Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it.Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help.History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence.This is the finest novel yet from the incomparable Fred Vargas.

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.