Vargas, Fred

Summary: Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according to popular legend, werewolves have no hair on their bodies because they are inside the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Vargas, Fred.

Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008

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Vargas, Fred.

Summary: "In a small Parisian square, the ancient tradition of the town crier continues into modern times. The self-appointed crier, Joss Le Guern, reads out the daily news, snippets of gossip, and lately, ominous messages placed in his handmade wooden message box by an annonymous source that warn of an imminent onset of the bubonic plague."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

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Vargas, Fred.

Summary: Une dame âgée est retrouvée morte chez elle. Tout laisse penser à un suicide. Sauf un étrange motif dessiné à proximité de la baignoire. C'est le départ d'une enquête qui va mener Adamsberg et ses hommes dans le Creux, coin perdu des Yvelines, mais aussi en Islande, sur un bout de roche maudit nommé l'île aux Renards et leur faire remonter le temps, à l'époque de la Révolution, et des séances...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2015

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Vargas, Fred.

Summary: "When Commissaire Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of London's Highgate Cemetery just a few days earlier. With the help of the murdered man's gifted physician, Adamsberg delves into the victim's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2011

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Vargas, Fred.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007

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