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This Night's Foul Work
This Night's Foul Work
Oct 11, 2024 8:17 PM

Author:Fred Vargas,Siân Reynolds

This Night's Foul Work

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison. Is there a connection between the three cases?

In this mystery, Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against nemeses past and present: Ariane Lagarde, France's foremost pathologist and Adamsberg's enemy since they argued over a case twenty-three years earlier, and Louis Veyrenc, a new recruit with a grudge, who has been assigned the job of protecting the Commissaire's ex-girlfriend. As the different strands of Vargas's compelling story begin to intertwine, events move towards a gripping climax...

Shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.

Reviews

Fred Vargas ... is rapidly asserting herself as one of the most impressive working crime writers

—— Metro

Stylish prose and strong characters

—— Financial Times

Irresistibly gripping, powerfully written and quite often frightening

—— The Times

The fascination of Fred Vargas's books is due as much to her characters as her plots... sit back and enjoy

—— Sunday Telegraph

If you haven't cottoned on to Vargas's brilliant Adamsberg detective stories, you're missing a treat

—— Scotland on Sunday

Vargas's latest continues on the humorous and original eccentricity of her work

—— Sunday Herald

Part Lisbeth Salander, part Jason Bourne, Munroe comes out swinging hard again. . . . A gritty, suspenseful novel.

—— Library Journal

Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!

—— Harlen Coben

From the first line, Simon Kernick knows how to get a thriller shifting, and he doesn't let up until the very last

—— Daily Mirror

Simon Kernick uses every trick in the book to keep the action breakneck.

—— Time Out

Snappy chapters, tense scenes and no holds barred action sequences - I read this novel in a very short time and it gave me a real “wow” feeling.

—— The Crime Warp

Here at Company HQ we're all obsessed with Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. This juicy seaside-town murder mystery will be one of the biggest books this autumn

—— Company Magazine

This fantastically written story, with its little clues casually dropped in along the way, will keep you guessing until the very end ... Another compelling, funny and thought-provoking winner from Liane Moriarty. Do whatever you can to get your hands on a copy - it's brilliant

—— Heat Magazine

Take this page-turner on holiday with you - you won't be able to put it down!

—— Closer Magazine

A twisted thriller

—— Now Magazine

Another riveting thriller. Tackling difficult subjects with intelligence and humanity

—— Hello Magazine

A compelling summer read not to be missed

—— OK Magazine

This addictive new thriller from bestselling author Liane Moriarty weaves three stories together to a shocking and unpredictable climax

—— Take A Break Magazine

It's a hell of a good book. Funny and scary. She nails the feuding moms.

—— Stephen King

Not only an enthralling murder investigation... but a plot that is strengthened and illuminated by two of the best characters I have read for some time- reporter Sully Carter and his cohort, the streetwise gangster Sly Hastings... their exchanges are pure gold.

—— Raven Crime Reads

This is a terrific first novel by a man with a long career in journalism. The tale builds to a dramatic conclusion, with a final unexpected and terrible twist in the tail.

—— Crime Review
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