Commissaire Adamsberg Series by Fred Vargas

3.87 · 182 ratings
  • The Chalk Circle Man (Commissaire Adamsberg #1)
    #1

    The Chalk Circle Man (Commissaire Adamsberg #1)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1991

    ISBN 9780143115953 moved to this edition.The debut mystery in the internationally bestselling Commissaire Adamsberg series-now available for the first time in the United States Fred Vargas 's Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries are a sensation in France, consistently praised for their intelligence, wit, and macabre imagination. This first novel in the series introduces the unorthodox detective Commissaire Adamsberg-one of the most engaging characters in contemporary crime fiction... more

  • Seeking Whom He May Devour (Commissaire Adamsberg #2)
    #2

    Seeking Whom He May Devour (Commissaire Adamsberg #2)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1999

    The second book by a major international mystery writer: this "exciting and careful whodunit is well-executed, page turning crime fiction" (Publishers Weekly).A small mountain community in the French Alps is roused to terror when they awaken each morning to find yet another of their sheep with its throat torn out. One of the villagers thinks it might be a werewolf, and when she's found killed in the same manner, people begin to wonder if she might have been right... more

  • Have Mercy on Us All (Commissaire Adamsberg #4)
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    Have Mercy on Us All (Commissaire Adamsberg #4)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2001

    The popular Parisian mystery by the international bestselling mystery writer, Fred Vargas, whom the French have hailed as the next Henning Mankell.In a small Parisian square, the ancient tradition of the town crier continues into modern times. The self-appointed crier, Joss Le Guern, reads out the daily news, snippets of gossip, and lately, ominous messages—placed in his handmade wooden message box by an anonymous source—that warn of an imminent onset of the bubonic plague... more

  • Coule la Seine (Commissaire Adamsberg #5)
    #5

    Coule la Seine (Commissaire Adamsberg #5)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2002

    «Ton collègue blond est assez emmerdant mais je l'aime bien, et puis il est généreux. Il se pose des questions sans fond, il s'inquiète et ça fait le bruit des vagues. Toi en revanche, tu fais le bruit du vent. Ça se voit à ta manière de marcher, tu suis ton souffle. Ton ami blond voit une flaque. Il s'arrête, examine la chose et il la contourne, il prépare bien son affaire. Toi, tu ne vois même pas cette flaque mais tu passes à côté sans le savoir, au flair. Tu piges? T'es comme un magicien.. more

  • Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Commissaire Adamsberg #6)
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    Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Commissaire Adamsberg #6)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2004

    Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it.Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence... more

  • This Night's Foul Work (Commissaire Adamsberg #7)
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    This Night's Foul Work (Commissaire Adamsberg #7)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2006

    On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison... more

  • An Uncertain Place (Commissaire Adamsberg #8)
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    An Uncertain Place (Commissaire Adamsberg #8)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2008

    From the #1 bestselling French author and three-time winner of the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award.When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of London's Highgate Cemetery just a few days earlier... more

  • The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (Commissaire Adamsberg #9)
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    The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (Commissaire Adamsberg #9)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2011

    A # 1 French and Italian bestseller from the three-time winner of the CWA’s International Dagger Award.More than ten million copies of Fred Vargas’s Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries have been sold worldwide. Now, American readers are getting hooked on the internationally bestselling author’s unsettling blend of crime and the supernatural. As the chief of police in Paris’s seventh arrondissement, Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec. Yet, he cannot ignore a widow’s plea... more

  • A Climate of Fear (Commissaire Adamsberg #10)
    #10

    A Climate of Fear (Commissaire Adamsberg #10)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2015

    From the #1 bestselling French author and four-time winner of the Crime Writers Association s International Dagger Award.A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team... more

  • This Poison Will Remain (Commissaire Adamsberg #11)
    #11

    This Poison Will Remain (Commissaire Adamsberg #11)

    Fred Vargas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2017

    Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nimes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider, in the new novel by the #1 bestselling French crime writer A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly into the region of Nîmes, where three old men have died of spider bites... more

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