Sur la dalle: Thriller (Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, 12)

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La localización es estupenda otra vez: Louviec y Combourg, cuna de Chateaubriand, con sus fantasmas, sus miedos, su comunidad peculiar.

It’s the sixth in Fred Vargas’ Commissaire Adamsberg series in which he investigates a macabre murder. La seule raison qui m'a poussé à terminer le livre, c'est Vargas, ou plutôt ce que Vargas a écrit avant cette histoire stupide.

Louis is supposed to be translating a biography of Bismark, but the newspaper reports of the two murdered women have distracted him so when his old friend Marthe tells him that Clément, who is like a son to her, is innocent and being used as a scapegoat he agrees to investigate and find the real culprit.

The novel is a fairly entertaining murder mystery, which is more about the oddball people involved in the novel, rather than the actual detective work. Seulement, sans rien abandonné de son univers, Fred Vargas propose un polar certes étrange mais plus ancré dans une fiction crédible.The small village of Saint-Victor in The French Alps is the setting for this adventure, which begins with the report of the deaths of four sheep.