Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery (Paperback)
Description
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.
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.
Praise for Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery…
Commissaire Adamsberg must be the most engaging French detective since Maigret. (Scotland on Sunday)
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)
An intriguing, idiosyncratic voice. (Time Out London)
A Vargas novel is as good as a trip to Paris. The style has the same hyper-real quality as all her writing-the real world, but filtered through a strange prism-but it's the plotting that really hits the spot: ingenious and eccentric. (Daily Express, London)
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)
