Have Mercy On Us All
9780099453642
Vintage
Paperback
320pp
Vintage
198x129x24
Fred Vargas Vintage FF|FBA Paperback 2004
One of the most fetchingly weird detectives…Adamsberg is a bit like Morse, but much more French. An unusual, eccentric thriller
Daily Telegraph
Fred Vargas has everything: complex and surprising plots, good pace, various and eccentric characters, a sense of place and history, individualized dialogue, wit and style
Times Literary Supplement
Moody, tense and grotesque, Vargas's prize-winning novel is a fascinating exploration of Paris's dark side
Guardian
No procedural, this, as we follow the twists and turns of Adamsberg's intuition – but it is thoroughly high-class entertainment, notably as Vargas is not afraid to test herself with the narrative
Time Out
On the basis of this elegantly twisted crime novel, Vargas is clearly an author who will rank alongside Henning Mankell. The detective, Commissaire Adamsberg, is the antithesis of Sherlock Homes: intuitive, preternaturally alert to hunches, and shabbier than Colombo. The plot kinks and switches in an utterly compelling manner. Creepy, sophisticated and wonderfully off-beat
Scotland on Sunday