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A bestseller in France, Vargas's U.S. debut presents a riveting blend of biothriller and historical cryptology: it takes a close look at the threat of bubonic plague to modern-day Paris. Joss Le Guern is a merchant seaman who, following the wreck of his ship and the end of his career, has strung an improvised mailbox onto a tree and taken to reading aloud local news left for him there thrice daily in the streets of Paris; he sees himself as a modern town crier. When odd, apocalyptic warnings begin coming in regularly, intrigued listener Hervé Decambrais does some research and finds they match medieval texts that predicted the coming of the Black Death. Meanwhile, backward 4s begin appearing on apartment doors. At first, Chief Inspector Adamsberg (a comically forgetful, yet thoughtful and decisive character) and his deputy dismiss the markings as graffiti, but when they discover that the symbol was once used in parts of Europe to protect people against the plague and correlate with Joss's reports, the detective work intensifies—though not fast enough. This exciting and careful whodunit is well-executed, page-turning crime fiction—until its surprise but somewhat anticlimactic ending. (Nov. 3)
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Vargas, a best-selling crime writer in France whose works have been translated into many languages, makes her belated U.S. debut with this beguiling mix of old and new. Her hero, Commissaire Adamsberg of the Paris police, an eccentric, bumbling, and wildly intuitive investigator in the Maigret mold, brings a charming old-school veneer to a decidedly contemporary, even noirish, story involving the possibility that the Black Death has returned to the City of Lights. Adamsberg learns of the threat through the strong voice of Joss Le Guern, a modern-day Parisian town crier who shouts the news from a Montparnasse street corner. As the story unfolds, Vargas combines fascinating details about the history of the plague with a character-rich look at street life in a working-class neighborhood. French mysteries tend to either imitate Maigret or react against him by stripping their characters down to the hard-boiled bone; here's a series that celebrates eccentricity in its characters but forces them to live in an utterly uncozy world. More Vargas would be very welcome. Bill Ott
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JOSS'S SETTLED VIEW HAS THAT FOLK WALK FASTER IN PARIS THAN they do in Le Guilvenec, the fishing village where he'd grown up. Lire la première page
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JOSS'S SETTLED VIEW HAS THAT FOLK WALK FASTER IN PARIS THAN they do in Le Guilvenec, the fishing village where he'd grown up. Lire la première page
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