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Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand | Fred Vargas
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Internationally acclaimed and bestselling crime writer Fred Vargas will be published for the first time in Canada in hardcover by Knopf Canada. In this remarkable addition to the Commissaire Adamsberg series, has a serial killer followed Adamsberg to Canada on his training mission? 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 crime and were sentenced to life. One slightly worrying detail: all the presumed murderers lost consciousness during the night of the crime and cannot remember whether they actually did it or not. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person: the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsbergs own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsbergs help. History now repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered his young lover. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence. The heir to Maigret, Commissaire Adamsberg is back in a new investigation that will keep the reader spellbound until the very last word.
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andrew61
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It's been a while since I was in the parisian world of commisaire Adamsberg, the enigmatic parisian detective who relies on his intuition. In this one, a crime from his childhood obsesses him with murder by stabbing with a trident. The plot takes him to Ottawa, where crimes follow him. Enjoyable series 3* and will read next at some point.

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Suelizbeth
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Another Commissaire Adamsberg mystery, and it is another odd, odd book, in a series of odd, odd books. I love this series and I love Adamsberg. This one ranges from France to Canada and Detroit and includes a scary dead(?) judge, a trident, drunken blackouts, a crazy woman, Mah Jong, questioned loyalties. I was stumped to the very end. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

CarolynM I've read a couple of these (not this one, though) and I agree - they are very odd but also very good. 5y
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This mystery was over-complicated in my opinion. I have read the author before and enjoyed them - they are always very quirky thanks to the lead investigator‘s style of investigating. He drove me a little crazy this time.

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rabbitprincess
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Two somewhat different choices for the #junebookbugs prompt of "planet in the title".

Laura317 😍 the DW book! 7y
writerlibrarian Love Vargas. 👍🏻 7y
Liatrek Doctor Who + gas mask = are you my mommy 😊 7y
rabbitprincess @Laura317 Hunting for them is a lot of fun! @writerlibrarian Me too! And this is the one that's set in Canada 😄 @Liatrek Haha! Perhaps Steven Moffat saw this when he was writing The Empty Child. 7y
rwmg Dr Who and Vargas ❤ 7y
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