Something inexplicable is happening in the French capital. Strange inverted fours appear on the doors of the apartments of peaceful Parisians in different pa...

DAGGER AWARD‘Quirky, bizarre, riveting, irresistible, utterly French… Vargas is perhaps the best mystery writer on the planet.’ – Winnipeg Free Press‘Like...

Finalist for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger“If you haven’t cottoned on to Vargas’s brilliant Adamsberg detective series, then you’re missing a tre...

The Three Evangelists is an enormously entertaining departure from Vargas's Commissaire Adamsberg series. Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes u...

Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. Accompanying him are Estalere, a young sergeant, and Commandant Danglard, who is ...

“Eccentric characters, complex but gripping plots and a nice wit… Vargas weaves her story expertly.” – Toronto Sun“Bizarre and fascinating.” – Edmonton Jo...

The issue opens with fragments of Canute Romer's novel “Nothing But Fear.” In 2006, the famous TV presenter, advertising executive and actor who starred in L...

Detective novels about the inimitable Commissioner Adamsberg brought the French writer Fred Vargas world fame. His first book, The Man Who Draws Blue Circles...

It was not for nothing that Adamsberg did not want to go to a boring police colloquium in London. It was there that this risky game of tic-tac-toe began - a ...

The Commissioner of the Parisian Criminal Investigation Department, Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, has a younger brother - Raphael, accused of murdering his girlfr...