The Chalk Circle Man

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Thrillers & True Crime, Crime & Thrillers

Fred Vargas (author), Siân Reynolds (translator)

Paperback Published on: 04/02/2010

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Winner of The Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop.

When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, only Adamsberg takes them - and the increasingly bizarre objects found within them - seriously. And when the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut is found in one, only Adamsberg realises that other murders will soon follow…

‘The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction’ Guardian

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099488972
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 181g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm

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An intriguing murder mystery... French-style!

Stieg Larsson famously composed his Millennium Trilogy simply as a way of winding down from work, and Fred Vargas apparently came to writing in the same ma... READ MORE

D J Smith

Quirky

Maybe the French think differently. or maybe it is just Vargas, but this takes a distinctly different line - sometimes worrying about whther it really want... READ MORE

Charles Tomkinson

Chalk Circles

I have just finished this and it is difficult for me to say really how I feel about it. On the one hand it is quite complex, different and enjoyable, but ... READ MORE

HelenS

The Chalk Circle Man

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