Embark on a captivating journey into the heart of Paris with a truly unconventional police commissioner. His methods may be eccentric and his demeanor that of a loner, but his unique perspective allows him to unravel the most intricate mysteries. Follow him as he uncovers secrets hidden within seemingly ordinary events and confronts the darkness lurking in the city's streets. This series offers a compelling blend of suspense, French flair, and profound insights into human nature.
When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg insists on being kept informed of new circles and the increasingly bizarre objects which they contain. Soon a circle with decidedly less banal contents is discovered: the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut. Adamsberg knows that other murders will follow.
El comisario Adamsberg se enfrenta a un criminal con una mentalidad muy retorcida, todo apunta a que se trata de uno de los casos más macabros de su carrera. «Víctor, mala suerte, ¿qué haces fuera?» Esta misteriosa frase viene acompañando durante cuatro meses los círculos azules que aparecen trazados con tiza en las aceras de la ciudad. En el centro de los círculos se halla un desecho, un residuo, un objeto perdido: un trombón, una bombilla, una pinza de depilar, un yogur, una pata de paloma... El fenómeno resulta muy divertido para los parisinos y procura material a periodistas y a psiquiatras que elaboran diferentes teorías. Sin embargo, al comisario Adamsberg no le hace ninguna gracia. Los círculos y su extraño contenido rezuman crueldad. Él lo presiente: pronto ese hecho anodino y estrafalario se convertirá en una tragedia
In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves.
Sommer in Paris. Grégoire und Vincent, zwei halbwüchsige Kleinkriminelle, klauen einem alten Mann die Tasche, deren Inhalt sie erschaudern lässt: vier Haarbüschel, ein Tierschädel, seltsame Bücher über Zauberei, eine Polizeimarke, ein Flakon mit einer dunkelbraunen Flüssigkeit, eine Filmdose mit Zahnsplittern und 30.000 Francs. Am nächsten Morgen wird Vincent erstochen aufgefunden - auf seinem Körper das Mal eines roten Widderkopfes, das Adamsberg auf die Spur eines rituellen Serienmörders setzt. Auch Grégoire schwebt in Gefahr, doch anstatt sich den Bullen anzuvertrauen, versteckt er die Tasche und schnüffelt ihrem Besitzer auf eigene Faust hinterher. Wann wird der „Widder“ wieder zuschlagen? - Ein überaus origineller Kriminalfall in Vargas'scher Manier, mit dem außergewöhnlichen Pinselstrich des Comic-Meisters Baudoin. „Die neue Vargas: “Ein Kunstwerk, so kraftvoll wie eine Oper, so zart wie eine Jazz-Melodie." Le Monde
Each day in honour of a Parisian tradition, a town crier calls out the local news to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days a number of disturbing messages are slipped into his box, messages of portentous and malicious intent referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared on the doors of several buildings: symbols once used to ward off the plague. Detective Commissaire Adamsberg begins to sense a connection, even a grotesque menace. Then charred and flea-bitten corpses are found. The press seizes on their plague-like symptoms, and the panic sets in.
„Vargas schreibt die schönsten und spannendsten Krimis in Europa.“ Tobias Gohlis, DIE ZEIT Fred Vargas hat mit Kommissar Adamsberg einen unvergleichlichen Helden geschaffen. Diese drei Pariser Geschichten, die allesamt kriminalistische Kleinode sind, offenbaren von neuem ihre Poesie, ihren Humor, ihre herrlichen Dialoge, ihre feine Menschenbeobachtung - kurz, ihre gerühmte erzählerische Magie. „Ihre Bücher sind preisgekrönte Bestseller, die man nicht empfiehlt, sondern von denen man gemeinsam schwärmt.“ Regula Freuler, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence.
In this mystery, Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against nemeses past and present: Ariane Lagarde, France's foremost pathologist and Adamsberg's enemy since they argued over a case twenty-three years earlier, and Louis Veyrenc, a new recruit with a grudge, who has been assigned the job of protecting the Commissaire's ex-girlfriend.
Adamsberg travels to London, where a routine conference draws him into a disturbing investigation. Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. With him are a young sergeant, Estalère, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard. Just outside the baroque and romantic old Highgate cemetery a pile of shoes is found. Not so strange in itself, but the shoes contain severed feet. As Scotland Yard's investigation begins, Adamsberg and his colleagues return home and are confronted with a massacre in a suburban home. Adamsberg and Danglard are drawn in to a trail of vampires and vampire-hunters that leads them all the way to Serbia, a place where the old certainties no longer apply.
‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, rapists, those with serious crimes on their conscience, meeting a grisly end following a visitation by the riders. Soon after the young woman’s vision a notoriously vicious and cruel man disappears. Although the case is far outside his jurisdiction, Adamsberg agrees to investigate the strange happenings in a village terrorised by wild rumours and ancient feuds.
French crime queen's new mystery - her best yet. Sunday Times
The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France’s multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star ‘Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain’ ANN CLEEVES ‘Absorbing… Full of twists and spiced with Vargas’s characteristic wit and style’ PETER ROBINSON ‘Vargas’s books are…cunning, corkscrew murder mysteries’ A.J. FINN After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn’t long before Adamsberg is investigating a series of rumours and allegations that take him to the south of France. Decades ago, at La Miséricorde orphanage, shocking events took place involving the same species of spider: the recluse. For Adamsberg, these haunting crimes hold the key to proving that the three men were targeted by an ingenious serial killer. His team, however, is not convinced. He must put his reputation on the line to trace the murderer before the death toll rises…
Po šestileté přestávce od posledního případu komisaře Adamsberga se s tímto charismatickým kriminalistou setkáváme znovu, tentokrát v jedné bretaňské vesnici zvané Louviec, kde ho čeká další složité vyšetřování. V Louviecu je postupně zavražděno několik lidí dosti podivným způsobem a zdánlivě bez motivu. Zdejší obyvatelé věří, že vraždy ohlašuje přízrak, přicházející sem z nedalekého hradu Combourg, kde koncem 18. století prožíval strastiplné dětství pod knutou despotického otce budoucí velikán francouzského písemnictví François-René de Chateaubriand. V Louviecu dnešních dní žije jeho dokonalá kopie – vzdálený potomek stejného příjmení, na něhož padne podezření z vražd. Důkazy hovoří proti němu, a jelikož je ve hře slavné jméno, je vyšetřování sledováno přímo ministrem. Jen Adamsberg v Chateaubriandovu vinu nevěří a jako obvykle řeší spletitý případ po svém, „na balvanu“, tedy na horním kameni dolmenu, na němž lehává a trpělivě vyčkává, až se mu z hlubin bahnitého dna mysli vynoří zasuté myšlenky, které ho navedou správným směrem. Ani tentokrát jeho metoda nezklame.
All'origine del «caso Vargas», che prima in Francia e poi in tutta Europa ha scalato le vette delle classifiche, ci sono il linguaggio terso, lo stile ironico e incisivo, l'accuratezza nei dettagli piú sorprendenti. E poi ci sono i suoi personaggi. Atipici, logorati dalla vita, ma sempre pronti a battersi. E c'è la simpatia con cui è ritratto il mondo del distretto di polizia del XIII arrondissement dove si muove il personaggio piú amato dai lettori di Fred Vargas, il commissario Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. «Spalatore di nuvole», antirazionale, flemmatico e filosofico, Adamsberg preferisce procedere a zigzag e aspettare, brancolare nel buio finché non viene folgorato da una delle sue intuizioni geniali, lontane dal rigore della «classica» logica dell'investigatore, che lo conducono alla rivelazione finale. L'uomo dei cerchi azzurri segna la prima apparizione assoluta dell'insolito commissario che si trova alle prese con dei misteriosi cerchi tracciati sui marciapiedi di Parigi, in mezzo ai quali Adamsberg sente che presto comparirà un cadavere. Nel secondo romanzo che lo vede protagonista, L'uomo a rovescio, il poliziotto sui generis deve risolvere invece una catena di orrendi delitti il cui autore potrebbe essere un lupo mannaro. Zeppo di simboli e superstizioni che parrebbero affondare nei tempi bui della Morte Nera è l'intricata vicenda in cui si trova coinvolto Adamsberg nell'ultimo romanzo di questa trilogia, Parti in fretta e non tornare. Contiene: L'uomo dei cerchi azzurri L'uomo a rovescio Parti in fretta e non tornare
