L'armée furieuse - Fred Vargas
Once again, with her latest Commissioner Adamsburg novel L'armée furieuse Fred Vargas shows why she is in a league of her own when it comes to French crime writing, or indeed in simply just in a league of her own. If there's a distinctly French character to her work, it's probably in the nature of Adamsberg, or perhaps more in the various types of characters Adamsberg meets in his cases. Not surprisingly, there are more than a few unusual types that come up in L'armée furieuse . How do these people seem to find Adamsberg? Mythology and the supernatural increasingly plays a part in the cases investigated by Adamsberg, some of which turn out to have human agent behind the strange events, others (like the previous Un lieu incertain ) are somewhat more ambiguous. Here, Adamsberg is sought out by Valentine Vendemot, from a small village called Ordebec in Normandy. A man has gone missing, Michel Herbier, but she's not particularly concerned about him, as he's not wel...