Have Mercy on Us All - Brossura

Vargas, Fred

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099453649 ISBN 13: 9780099453642

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2004

Riassunto

Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the course of a few days he receives a number of disturbing and portentous messages of malicious intent, all of them 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 charged and flea-bitten corpses are found. The press seizes on their plague-like symptoms, and the panic sets in.

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Recensione:

"One of the most fetchingly weird detectives...Adamsberg is a bit like Morse, but much more French. An unusual, eccentric thriller" (Daily Telegraph)

"Fred Vargas has everything: complex and surprising plots, good pace, various and eccentric characters, a sense of place and history, individualized dialogue, wit and style" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Moody, tense and grotesque, Vargas's prize-winning novel is a fascinating exploration of Paris's dark side" (Guardian)

"No procedural, this, as we follow the twists and turns of Adamsberg's intuition - but it is thoroughly high-class entertainment, notably as Vargas is not afraid to test herself with the narrative" (Time Out)

"On the basis of this elegantly twisted crime novel, Vargas is clearly an author who will rank alongside Henning Mankell. The detective, Commissaire Adamsberg, is the antithesis of Sherlock Homes: intuitive, preternaturally alert to hunches, and shabbier than Colombo. The plot kinks and switches in an utterly compelling manner. Creepy, sophisticated and wonderfully off-beat" (Scotland on Sunday)

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'A delicious Parisian chiller' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099453649
• ISBN 13: 9780099453642
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400