This Night's Foul Work

Resumen del libro

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case, he must call in a favour from the pathologist Ariane Lagarde, someone he had come up against twenty-three years previously.

The trail also leads Adamsberg to a cemetery, where a grave has been disturbed with no apparent motive. Could this be the work of the elderly nurse a serial killer caught by Adamsberg two years ago and recently escaped from prison?

Meanwhile a new lieutenant has been assigned to the team. There is something disquieting about him, not least when it emerges that he is from a neighbouring village in the Pyrenees, known for its feuds with Adamsberg's own childhood home.

Biografía del autor

Fred Vargas (seudónimo de Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, París, 1957), arqueóloga de formación, es mundialmente conocida como autora de novelas policiacas. Además del Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras 2018, ha ganado los más importantes galardones, incluido el prestigioso International Dagger, que le ha sido concedido en tres ocasiones consecutivas. También ha recibido, entre otros, el Prix mystère de la critique (1996 y 2000), el Gran Premio de novela negra del Festival de Cognac (1999), el Trofeo 813, el Giallo Grinzane (2006) o el Premio Landernau Polar (2015). Sus novelas han sido traducidas a múltiples idiomas con un gran éxito de ventas, alguna de ellas incluso se ha llevado al cine. Siruela publica toda su obra en castellano.