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 Have Mercy on Us All by Vargas, Fred |
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Brief Description Set in Paris, this novel addresses a particularly serious and chilling case of murder. Superintendent Adamsberg loves mysteries, but when the town crier begins reading disturbing messages that have been slipped in between the daily news, he knows this is no ordinary crime. |
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Author Information Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. As well as being a best-selling author in France, she is a historian and archaeologist by training. |
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Author Profile Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. As well as being a best-selling author in France, she is by training an historian and archaeologist. |
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Synopsis Joss le Guern is a town crier in Paris's 14th arrondissement. He calls out the local news three times a day to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days, however, a number of enigmatic and disturbing messages are slipped in to the daily news, and he becomes increasingly alarmed. Superintendent Adamsberg is visited by an extremely troubled woman who has found strange marks on the door of her building: upside down 4s marked out in black paint. This, and the appearance of the frightening messages, are exactly the kind of mysteries Adamsberg loves. In the course of his inquiries he begins to sense a sinister and often grotesque menace. And when a charred corpse is found, Adamsberg knows he's dealing with a particularly serious and chilling case. Be Gone and Don't Come Back is Fred Vargas's masterpiece so far. She is exceptional at building mood and tension, and, as Henning Mankell portrays the social realities of contemporary Sweden in his Inspector Wallander mysteries, so Vargas does the same for Paris and France. |
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