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A climate of fear / Fred Vargas ; translated from the French by Siân Reynolds.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Series: Commissaire Adamsberg. 8 | Vargas, Fred. Commissaire Adamsberg mystery ; 9.Publication details: London : Harvill Secker, 2016.Description: 410 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781910701393 (paperback)
  • 9781910701386 (hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Temps glaciaires. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 843.92 23
Summary: A chilling tale of suspicious deaths in the Icelandic mists, and the coldness of Robespierre and the Terror, from France's bestselling crime writer and four-time winner of the CWA International Dagger. A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern starts to emerge: both victims were involved in a tragic incident in Iceland over 10 years ago. A group of tourists found themselves trapped on a deserted island for two weeks, surrounded by thick, impenetrable fog, and two of them didn't make it back alive. But how are the deaths linked to the local Robespierre society? And what does the mysterious symbol signify?
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Promoted book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Crime VAR Adamsberg Bk.8 Issued 17/05/2024 064867
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Translated from the French.

First published with the title Temps glaciaires in 2015 by Flammarion, Paris.

A chilling tale of suspicious deaths in the Icelandic mists, and the coldness of Robespierre and the Terror, from France's bestselling crime writer and four-time winner of the CWA International Dagger. A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern starts to emerge: both victims were involved in a tragic incident in Iceland over 10 years ago. A group of tourists found themselves trapped on a deserted island for two weeks, surrounded by thick, impenetrable fog, and two of them didn't make it back alive. But how are the deaths linked to the local Robespierre society? And what does the mysterious symbol signify?

Translated from the French.

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