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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 crime and were sentenced to life. One slightly worrying detail: all the presumed murderers lost consciousness during the night of the crime and cannot remember whether they actually did it or not. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person: the terrifying Judge...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the edge of Paris two small-time drug dealers have had their throats cut in a peculiar fashion. Setting out on the trail of the shadowy killer, Commissaire Adamsberg and his detectives travel between Paris and the Normandy countryside. Adamsberg's investigation into these horrible deaths brings him into contact with the attractive Ariane Lagarde - a pathologist who caused him professional grief some twenty-five years ago. There's also a new lieutenant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is highly successful -- a born cop. When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, the press take up the story with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
353 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 anonymous source -- that warn of an imminent onset of the bubonic plague. Concerned, Le Guern brings the puzzling notes to the bumbling but brilliant Chief Inspector Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Physical Desc
289 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A small mountain community in the French Alps is horrified when a sheep is found with its throat torn out. One villager believes it may be a werewolf, and she subsequently suffers a similar death. Commissaire Adamsberg is summoned from the city to assist in the investigation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Commissaire Adamsberg takes on a case far outside of his jurisdiction: the disappearances of evil-doers who have been visited by a band of ghostly horsemen. 'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both victims were part of a disastrous expedition to Iceland over ten years ago where a group of tourists found themselves trapped on a deserted...
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