** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **
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…
- ISBN10 1787300501
- ISBN13 9781787300507
- Publish Date 1 August 2019
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Harvill Secker
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9781787300507