Fred Vargas

"Wildly imaginative."--The New York Times "Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action."--Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series As the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec. Yet, he cannot ignore a widow's plea. Her daughter Lina has seen a vision of the Ghost Riders with four nefarious men. According to the thousand-year-old legend, the vision means that the men will soon die a grisly death. When one of them disappears, Adamsberg races to Ordebec, where he becomes entranced by the gorgeous Lina--and embroiled in the small Normandy town's ancient feud.

Atter er en gang blir førstebetjent Adamsberg konfrontert med en sak som tilsynelatende har dype røtter i historien og mytene. I en liten normannisk landsby har det forgått et drap. I den samme landsbyen lever minnet om fyrsten Hellequin og hans såkalte rasende horde. Historien vil ha det til at de en gang herjet landsbyen og drepte flere forbrytere som ikke var blitt straffet av myndighetene. Nå har noen igjen fått syn på denne horden. Myten er ikke død. Det er mange som går rundt med dårlig samvittighet. Og enten det er Den rasende horden eller en lokal hevner som er på ferde, så sprer redselen seg som ild i tørt gress. Mens stadig flere av Adamsbergs folk blir engasjert i landsbymordet, må Adamsberg forholde seg til en ung kjenning i Paris. Han har hatt det med å sette fyr på biler. Det er bare det at denne gangen satt det noen i bilen ... "Uimotståelig. Å lese Vargas er som å entre et parallelt univers, eller som å sutte på en sukkerbit dynket i førsteklasses calvados. (...) 'Den rasende horden' er en av de beste i en eksepsjonell serie bøker." Ole Jacob Hoel, Adresseavisen "... et strålende gjensyn med en av mine favorittdetektiver. (...) Lunt, underfundig og ytterst fransk." Ola Hegdal, Dagens Næringsliv "Fred Vargas fornekter seg ikke, dette er en høykvalitets røverhistorie, og samtidig dønn realistisk! Nesten, da. For alle som er litt matlei tradisjonelle kriminalromaner er dette ren snop." Lars Helge Nilsen, Bergens Tidende

Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime FictionCommissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. Both the dead man's son and gardener have motives for murder, but soon another candidate for the killing emerges.

"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers."--Martin Walker, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police Series "A wildly imaginative series."--The New York Times From the #1 bestselling French author and four-time winner of the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award.When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's seventh 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 disturbed psyche and unexpectedly finds himself on a path that takes him deep into the haunted past of Eastern Europe, where a centuries-old horror has come to life and is claiming victims far and wide.

In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop. When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, only Adamsberg takes them - and the increasingly bizarre objects found within them - seriously.

"Wildly imaginative."--The New York Times "Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action."--Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series When blue chalk circles begin to appear on the pavement in neighborhoods around Paris, Commissaire Adamsberg is alone in thinking that they are far from amusing. As he studies each new circle and the increasingly bizarre objects they contain - empty beer cans, four trombones, a pigeon's foot, a doll's head - he senses the cruelty that lies within whoever is responsible. And when a circle is discovered with decidedly less banal contents - a woman with her throat slashed - Adamsberg knows that this is just the beginning.

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 favor from the pathologist Ariane Lagarde.

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. Original.

Adamsberg, der Pariser Kommissar, der seine Fälle mehr durch Intuition als durch analytisches Denken löst, wird durch den mysteriösen Mord an einer jungen Frau mit einem "Dämon" aus seiner Zeit als junger Polizist konfrontiert. Auch damals wurde das Opfer mit drei gleichen Stichen umgebracht, und schließlich geriet sogar sein eigener Bruder in Verdacht, der daraufhin spurlos untertauchte. Hinter allem schien eine dunkle Persönlichkeit aus den höchsten juristischen Kreisen zu stecken. Adamsberg ist sich sicher, dass dieselbe Person wieder ihr Unwesen treibt. Doch die Theorie hat einen Nachteil: Der Mann ist längst tot.

In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves. Disturbing things have been happening up in the French mountains;

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.

"Vargas schreibt die schönsten und spannendsten Krimis in Europa." Tobias Gohlis, DIE ZEIT Fred Vargas hat mit Kommissar Adamsberg einenunvergleichlichenHeldengeschaffen. Diese drei Pariser Geschichten, die allesamt kriminalistische Kleinode sind, offenbaren von neuem ihre Poesie, ihren Humor, ihre herrlichen Dialoge, ihre feine Menschenbeobachtung - kurz, ihre gerühmte erzählerische Magie. "Ihre Bücher sind preisgekrönte Bestseller, die man nicht empfiehlt, sondern von denen man gemeinsam schwärmt." Regula Freuler, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

"Wildly imaginative."--The New York Times "Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action."--Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series Three wounds in a perfectly straight line was the bloody signature that marked victims from every corner of France who had been murdered over the course of thirty years. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is deeply and personally familiar with the case, and though others were always framed and convicted for these crimes, including his own brother, the Commissaire knows the true identity of the killer--and knows that the murderer died in 1987. All the more disturbing, then, is Adamsberg's discovery one morning of a fresh murder with exactly the same profile...

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.

When the residents of a French Alpine village accuse a beardless local of being a werewolf and killing a sheep breeder, eccentric Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg teams up with his ex-girlfriend, the victim's adopted son, and a shepherd to investigate clues linked to the village's history. Original. 17,500 first printing.

The popular Parisian mystery by the international bestselling mystery writer, Fred Vargas, whom the French have hailed as the next Henning Mankell.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 and his straight-edged, right-hand man, Adrien Danglard. When strange signs that were historically believed to ward off the black death start to appear on the doors of several buildings, Adamsberg takes notice and suspects a connection with Le Guern's warnings. After a flea-bitten corpse with plague-like symptoms is found in one of the marked buildings, Fred Vargas's inimitable genius chief inspector is under pressure to solve the mystery and restore calm to a panicked Paris. But is it a real case of the bubonic scourge, or just a sinister trick designed to frighten as the body count grows and the culprit continues to elude the police? Peopled with charming and eccentric Gallic characters, and packed with gripping historical detail, Have Mercy on Us All is a complex, surprising, and stylish tale from France's finest mystery writer.