Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand

VARGAS, Fred; REYNOLDS, Siān (trans.)

ISBN 10: 0676977987 / ISBN 13: 9780676977981

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2004

About this Item

386 p. 24 cm. Blue cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Commissaire Adamsberg Investigates.

Seller Inventory # 133408

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0676977987
• ISBN 13: 9780676977981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime and mystery

About this title

Synopsis

Internationally acclaimed and bestselling crime writer Fred Vargas will be published for the first time in Canada in hardcover by Knopf Canada.

In this remarkable addition to the Commissaire Adamsberg series, has a serial killer followed Adamsberg to Canada on his training mission?

Between 1943 and 2003, nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crime and were sentenced to life. One slightly worrying detail: all the presumed murderers lost consciousness during the night of the crime and cannot remember whether they actually did it or not. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person: the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg’s own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg’s help. History now repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered his young lover. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence. The heir to Maigret, Commissaire Adamsberg is back in a new investigation that will keep the reader spellbound until the very last word.

About the Author

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. As well as being a bestselling author in France, she is by training an historian and archaeologist. She was the winner of the inaugural British Crime Writers’ Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for her novel The Three Evangelists.