Yes, the many admirers of the French commissioner Jean Baptiste Adamsberg are in luck. Today 14 February the new novel from his long series, When the recluse leaves. The queen of the French fleece, Fred Vargas, he recovers his private and successful policeman in another case that will surely delight his loyal followers. Let's take a look at their previous stories.
Fred Vargas
Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frederique Audoin-Rouzeau, born in Paris in 1957. She is an archaeologist by training, but she is undoubtedly known worldwide as the author of crime novels. So far he has written twelve with the curator Adamsberg and his team as protagonists. He has also written the detective series lovers known as The three evangelists, where he shows his knowledge as a specialist of the Middle Ages that he is.
He has won the most important awards of the genre, including the prestigious International Dagger, which has been worn three times in a row. But they have also been the Prix mystère de la critique, the Grand Prize for crime novels at the Cognac Festival or the Giallo grinzane (2006). His novels have been translated into Many languages with great critical and sales success.
Series Jean Baptiste Adamsberg
Paris and Commissioner Adamsberg with his special intuition and way of investigating they conquered me in Run away fast, go far away. I still have a few of his books pending that I hope to start soon. The series is made up of:
- The man with the blue circles (1991)
A disturbing phrase that accompanies the blue circles that appear traced in chalk on the sidewalks of the city will be the subject of Adamsberg's first investigation.
- The upside down man (1999)
In a village in the Alps, sheep are slaughtered and the inhabitants are frightened. The wolves seem to be the culprits, but when it is a woman who appears dead, there is a case for Commissioner Adamsberg. Because there are those who believe that everything is the work of a real werewolf who lives hidden in the mountains.
- The four rivers (2000)
First collaboration with cartoonist Edmond Baudoin to bring the commissary to the comic.
- Run away fast go away (2001)
Adamsberg investigates the appearance of strange inscriptions on the doors of a Parisian building: an inverted four and underneath three letters, CLT. Joss, an old sailor, receives letters telling him where the next graffiti will be. And panic and murders invade Paris when it is the plague that seems to have spread.
- The Seine flows (2002)
It includes three novels: Health and freedom, Night of the brutes y Five francs unit.
- Under the winds of Neptune (2004)
Adamsberg travels to Quebec to learn new research techniques being developed by his colleagues there. Upon arrival, he will meet a murdered young woman with three stab wounds and the mysterious Trident, a ghostly assassin who haunts the commissioner.
- The third virgin (2006)
The ghost of an eighteenth century nun who slaughtered her victims, desecrated corpses of virgins, magic potions that ensure eternal life ... With all this, Commissioner Adamsberg will find in this title, which this time may cost him not the reason but the heart.
- An uncertain place (2008)
- The scourer seller (2010) Comic.
Second collaboration with Edmond Baudoin to recreate a murder witnessed by a homeless man and also a scourer seller, who will be interrogated by Adamsberg.
- The furious army (2011)
- Ice times (2015)
A bizarre Robespierre fan club, old family grudges, red herrings, and old Norse myths are the makings of this Adamsberg case.
- When the recluse leaves (2017)
Adamsberg, who has returned from vacation in Iceland, is interested in the death of three elderly people due to the bites of a spider better known as the recluse. It is elusive and poisonous, but not lethal. Adamsberg begins to investigate behind the back of his team in a complex plot that dates back to the Middle Ages.
Adamsberg on television
Adamsberg made a face of the French actor Jean Hughes Anglade in a television series that adapted the stories of The man with the blue circles, The man upside down, Under the winds of Neptune y An uncertain place.