Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand

A #1 bestselling author in France, Fred Vargas repeatedly captivates her many admirers across the globe with suspenseful mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, aa Gallic cousin to Ruth Rendellas Chief Inspector Wexforda ("The Washington Post"). In the same way that Donna Leonas Commissario Brunetti and Andrea Camillerias Inspector Montalbano have won countless fans on this side of the Atlantic due to Penguinas robust commitment to the best international mystery writing, Vargasas Commissaire Adamsberg is poised to conquer America in a series of novels that are atruly original . . . like nothing else in contemporary fictiona ("The Sunday Times," London), beginning with "Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand."