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Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand

By Fred Vargas

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| Paperback | 9781843432739

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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 LeContinue

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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  • The jellyfish hunch

    Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas, translated by Sian Reynolds 392pp, Harvill Secker, £11.99 Fred Vargas, a rising star within the narrow field of good, intellectual crime novels, has written 14 books in her native French; in the UK, ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • French detective mystery featuring the eccentric and slovenly Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. Adamsberg tracks a killer who he believes has been killing for 50 years, with only one problem—he’s been dead for 20 years. Extremely well done.

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