It is interesting and strange that I want so much to write about a book that only gets four-stars (4 stars being, in my inflated world, tantamount to saying it was only so-so... though this book is better than just so-so.I don't know quite why I've suddenly fallen into with this genre. I can't imagi...
Vintage Vargas. You kinda need to have read the previous book to fully get where Adamsberg is coming from and why he is in just a strange head space (more that usual for him). The plot hinges on the supernatural again. It's well done and the whole small village with history going back to the middle ...
The first book in the Commissaire Adamsberg series (though not translated into English first). Newly tranferred to Paris from the Pyrenees, Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg has a rather unconventional way of looking at crimes. When blue chalk cirlces start showing up all over Paris he is sure s...
I just couldn’t decide about this book, couldn’t get into it at first as plot took too long to get into, characters fab, but some of the things the main character did were not in keeping with a supposedly clever man. The coincidences were annoying, but overall the plot great and some of the minor c...
Finished this today on the bus. Some of it is a bit clumsy but overall an excellent crime/detective book. Set in Paris. This one is the first in a series with Adamsberg as the detective.
How to can you not like a detective who supervises 26 other homicide flics and needs to use mnemonics such as acne, prognathous, solicitude, Marcel to associate names with faces, and who indulges in self-examination along the lines of "You think you're a million miles away from the likes of Favre, ...
two short stories around Adamsberg, one of them telling a lot about Danglard. Typical Vargas and enthralling like her other Adamsberg stories. Vargas makes her readers look at the world from a slightly tilted angle just like Adamsberg does.
Fred Vargas is a woman, and French. The former is certainly no obstacle to writing a fun mystery novel; the latter makes the flavour of the language interesting (I'm reading in translation, though). I was loaned this book by a colleague, who says Vargas is all the rage in France just now - a French ...
Prompted to search this out from my Mount TBR by Carey! I'll start it as soon as I finish the breathtakingly good The Dream of ScipioLeaning his shoulder against the dark basement wall, Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg stood contemplating the enormous central heating boiler which had suddenly stopped working...
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