This Night's Foul Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143113591)

Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers. --Martin Walker, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police Series

"A wildly imaginative series."--The New York Times

Awarded the International Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association four times, Fred Vargas has earned a reputation in Europe as a mystery author of the first order. In This Night's Foul Work, the intuitive Commissaire Adamsberg teams up with Dr. Ariane, a pathologist with whom he crossed paths twenty years ago, to unravel a beguiling mystery that begins with the discovery of two bodies in Paris's Porte de la Chapelle. Adamsberg believes it may be the work of a killer with split personalities, who is choosing his or her victims very carefully. As other murders begin to surface, Adamsberg must move quickly in order to stop the Angel of Death from killing again.

Author: Fred Vargas
ISBN-10: 0143113593
ISBN-13: 9780143113591
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.36w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2008 pg. 395
Publishers Weekly 04/28/2008 pg. 115
Booklist 05/01/2008 pg. 43
Library Journal 06/01/2008 pg. 83
London Review of Books 04/09/2009 pg. 28
Commonweal 06/18/2010 pg. 24

About the Author
Fred Vargas is a French medieval historian and archaeologist who has a parallel career as a bestselling crime novelist. She adopted the pseudonym from her twin sister, an artist who works as Jo Vargas--after Ava Gardner's character in The Barefoot Contessa. She has published ten mysteries, five of which feature Commissaire Adamsberg. Her detective fiction is published in 32 languages.