Ecologismo, lobos, leyendas, asesinatos, el Comisario Adamsberg, su peculiar forma de investigar y sus fantasmas personales que le persiguen en cada uno de sus libros. I've seen enough werewolves in real life to not get all shaken up about them when I encounter them in fiction. Una pena que ello nos prive de buena parte de los personajes habituales, como Danglard, y que Retancourt acapare la mayor parte del protagonismo entre los desplazados a Bretaña; ella es extraordinaria y me encanta, pero los demás parece que estén ahí de mero adorno. This is the best French crime/thriller/mystery/whatever series of the last 458 years, just to so you know.

I bought this book a couple of years ago and fully intended to read it at that time – but it got buried in my Kindle! Wherever you live, if you’re a francophile or French and you’d like to join our team of Contributors then we’d love to hear from you – check out our submissions page. In 2009 Vargas was again awarded the International Dagger, becoming the first author to receive it for three successive novels, in tandem with the translator, in each case Siân Reynolds. Adamsberg begins to investigate behind the back of his team in a complex plot that dates back to the Middle Ages.

Mais j'ai plutôt l'impression que Fred Vargas a écrit "Sur la dalle" en pleine conscience du discours critique (au sens noble) dont son oeuvre fait l'objet, et avec le désir d'opérer une mutation sans savoir toujours par quel bout s'y prendre tant elle aime évidemment faire ce qu'elle fait. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Readerwhere you can share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading. Un peu déçue, les choses vont très vite par moments sans qu'on ait le temps d'assimiler les infos comme c'est habituellement le cas avec Vargas. I dismissed it so completely that when the werewolf jumped out, I can honestly say I hadn't seen the forest for the trees.

Actually there are only two of the three Evangelists in Dog Will Have His Day – Marc and Mathias – who help ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler, to uncover the mystery surrounding a tiny fragment of human bone Louis had found. And as it just so happens, Camille knows just the guy -- Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, in Paris, at the police headquarters in the fifth arrondissement. Car, un énième soir de beuverie, le garde champêtre, Gaëlle Kévin, est retrouvé assassiné dans les rues de Louviec, petit village près du château de Combourg. Dans le magnifique "Quand sort la recluse", le légendaire rejoignait le quotidien, et les failles de notre propre époque. While the mystery itself is a bit predictable, it's not really the who that counts, but rather the getting there that makes this story.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. Un paquet de personnages présents qui servent à rien (Noël, Veyrenc) et une intrigue qui part dans une direction un peu trop loin du crime principal à mon avis, avant de revenir dessus les 10 dernières pages. Et la résolution de l'intrigue, littéralement tombée du ciel, ne donnant aucune satisfaction au lecteur, qui pouvait de toute façon deviner le coupable parmi les quelques personnages qui lui sont présentés, n'a même pas le mérite d'être logique (pourquoi les victimes se baladaient seules dehors, alors que les journaux nationaux leur recommandaient de rester bouclés chez eux ?

Her most famous character, Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, is the antithesis of the classic hard-boiled detective. since I am losing my french somewhat I used my highlighter besides filling a page about each character. A disturbing phrase that accompanies the blue circles that appear traced in chalk on the sidewalks of the city will be the subject of Adamsberg's first investigation. I thought I was really going to struggle with this one, but no, I easily managed to find series I have read and that fit here. Je ne sais pas ce que c’est avec Vargas mais je sors de chaque livre avec le sentiment que la vie est a nouveau en equilibre, ses nuances re etablies…I love the characters ‘dejantés’ or simply themselves and the team around Adamsberg coming together, evolving.The story involves a plumber/musician and two local sheep farmers randomly tracking down the "werewolf" responsible for butchering the sheep and the murders - in a dilapidated, ancient, and now modified, sheep-transport truck. I see from the synopsis of The Accordionist that Louis is also in the third book in the series with the three ‘Evangelists’ – I’m hoping my reserved copy will be available from the library soon. When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer.