Quand sort la recluse by Fred Vargas

Quand sort la recluse by Fred Vargas

Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nimes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider, in the new novel by the #1 bestselling French crime writer

A wildly imaginative series.--The New York Times

Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action.--Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series

A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly into the region of N mes, where three old men have died of spider bites. The recluse has a sneaky attack, but is that enough to explain the deaths of these men, all killed by the same venom?

At the National Museum of Natural History, Adamsberg meets a pensioner who tells him that two of the three octogenarians have known each other since childhood, when they lived in a local orphanage called The Mercy. There, they had belonged to a small group of violent young boys known as the band of recluses. Adamsberg faces two obstacles: the third man killed by the same venom was not part of the band of recluses, and the amount of spider venom necessary to kill doesn't add up.

Yet after the N mes deaths, more members of the old band succumb to recluse bites, leading the commissaire to uncover the tragedy hidden behind the walls of the orphanage.

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ISBN 13	9782290156063
ISBN 10	229015606X
Title	Quand sort la recluse
Author	Fred Vargas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	J'ai lu
Year published	2018-05-30
Number of pages	0
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