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The Chalk Circle Man

Fred Vargas

The Chalk Circle Man

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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 Chalk Circle Man won the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2014
ISBN-13
9781448163496
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Murder investigationUnconventional detectiveSerial killerParisian crimePsychological mystery