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Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand

by Fred Vargas

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ISBN13: 9780143112167
ISBN10: 0143112163
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A #1 bestselling author in France, Fred Vargas repeatedly captivates her many admirers across the globe with suspenseful mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, "a Gallic cousin to Ruth Rendell's Chief Inspector Wexford" (The Washington Post). In the same way that Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti and Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano have won countless fans on this side of the Atlantic due to Penguin's robust commitment to the best international mystery writing, Vargas's Commissaire Adamsberg is poised to conquer America in a series of novels that are "truly original . . . like nothing else in contemporary fiction" (The Sunday Times, London), beginning with Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand.

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Fred Vargas is the hottest property in crime fiction. . . . Poetic, offbeat and genuinely addictive. [Her] prose has an unusual deftness, a wry humour. A unique voice. (The Guardian, London)

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An intriguing, idiosyncratic voice. (Time Out London)

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A Vargas novel is as good as a trip to Paris. The style has the same hyper-real quality as all her writingthe real world, but filtered through a strange prismbut it's the plotting that really hits the spot: ingenious and eccentric. (Daily Express, London)

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Fred Vargas has everything: complex and surprising plots, good pace, various and eccentric characters, a sense of place and history, individual settings, wit, and style. (The Times Literary Supplement)

Synopsis:

In this remarkable addition to the Commissaire Adamsberg series, a serial killer has followed Adamsberg to Canada on his training mission in a novel that will keep readers spellbound until the very end.

About the Author

Fred Vargas is a historian and archaeologist by profession who has now become a bestselling and award-winning novelist. This is her fifth Adamsberg mystery.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780143112167
Author:
Vargas, Fred
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Translator:
Reynolds, Sian
Author:
Reynolds, Sian
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries
Publication Date:
August 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
388
Dimensions:
8.02x5.54x.89 in. .74 lbs.

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