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E che dire di Danglard? Di colui che mi ha sbatacchiata per tutto il romanzo tra rabbia e compassione? Following an unexpected meeting with a strange old lady, Adamsberg’s investigations take him to the south of France, where he discovers a precedent to the deaths connected to this normally shy and harmless spider. As to be expected with Adamsberg, both the crimes and his methods for solving them, are highly unconventional. According to Wikipedia, four of the Vargas mystery series have been serialized for television. I saw one, once, years ago. It was painful, considering the renown of French cinema and the intrigue of the novels. it is definitely time for a new rendition. Spider bites can kill. But three elderly men, living in one area, killed by a small reclusive spider seems more than accidental to a member of Inspector Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg's team. As information is gathered, Adamsberg decides to investigate, a decision that causes a rift within his team. Running an unauthorized investigation and possibly losing his best friend and right-hand man is a risk, but seeking justice is worth it.

Reportage + Société Stay informed & try to understand what’s happening in France – News, sport, politics, even the gossip behind it all – Explore problems & paradoxes of today’s cultural & social issues… Adamsberg investigates the appearance of strange inscriptions on the doors of a Parisian building: an inverted four and underneath three letters, CLT. Joss, an old sailor, receives letters telling him where the next graffiti will be. And panic and murders invade Paris when it is the plague that seems to have spread. Ah, to be able to do some Slightly Unorthodox Investigating (SUI™) with the Clique of the Slightly Unorthodox Methods (CotSUM™)! Such fun times to be had! It’s all cute and cuddly arachnids, dandelions-that-aren’t, medieval women hermits, somewhat nefarious, stinking bugs, amputation, impromptu (if a little illegal) archaeological digs super fun, luxurious camping trips, and sporadic teaspoon theft! Fun times, I tell you! But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

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Adamsberg travels to Quebec to learn new research techniques being developed by his colleagues there. Upon arrival, he will meet a murdered young woman with three stab wounds and the mysterious Trident, a ghostly assassin who haunts the commissioner. Anyone who enjoys kooky characters and intricate detail will happily follow Vargas along.”— Entertainment Weekly Lastly, in the essay-length The Young Man (Fitzcarraldo, Sept), translated by Alison L Strayer, the Nobel prize-winning French author Annie Ernaux recounts her affair with a student 30 years her junior when she was in her 50s. Their relationship prompts the author to recall moments from her own youth and to reflect, acutely and without sentimentality, on memory and the passing of time.

La traduttrice è stata brava a mantenere il più possibile i giochi di parole che costituiscono la ragnatela che si forma nella mente del commissario, da indizio a indizio. Arts + Culture Enrich your life through stories, interviews, info & tips about the world of French art, theatre, music, film, architecture, design, photography etc – stay informed – what’s on where and when…

Fred Vargas’s Commissaire Adamsberg books in order:

Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nimes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider, in the new novel by the #1 bestselling French crime writer Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action.”—Peter Robinson,New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series As a novelist, Fred Vargas writes mostly crime stories. She found writing was a way to combine her interests and relax from her job as a scientist. Her novels are set in Paris and feature the adventures of Chief Inspector Adamsberg and his team. Her interest in the Middle Ages is manifest in many of her novels, especially through the person of Marc Vandoosler, a young specialist in the period. Faber is best known for his novels Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White, but he’s been incubating a different kind of book for years, one about his greatest passion, music. The result is a series of finely tuned observations formed from personal memories, nuggets of neuroscience and interviews with musical luminaries, in which he attempts to explain “what really happens when we hear, and what’s really going on when we listen”. The answer is a combination of biology and biography. Sounds simple enough: Faber’s kaleidoscope-like book explains why it really isn’t.

There has been, as can be seen in the history revealed in this novel and in the untested rape kits languishing on shelves in police stations all over America, a dismissive attitude towards crimes against women. In this mystery, some truly horrifying crimes are described (thankfully in a matter-of-fact, non-inflammatory way) and some male attitudes are examined for bias. At one point Chief Inspector Adamsberg realizes describing his favorite female lieutenant as worth “ten men” would be better changed to “one woman.” Those of us who have worked with colleagues of both sexes are pleased Vargas made a point of chastising Adamsberg for old attitudes. Insomma, per me è una di quelle scrittrici per cui puoi dire "Ma sì, ormai mi fido così tanto che vado a colpo sicuro!". Una garanzia che ti spinge a comprare il libro dopo poco che esce senza attendere la biblioteca, insomma. Me encanta leer a Fred Vargas, y una vez que comienzo uno de sus libros no puedo dejarlo. Es muy distinta a cualquier otro autor policíaco: en sus novelas, lo fantástico, lo absurdo, incluso lo paranormal, son constantes. Y el lector fiel acepta con gusto estas reglas del juego y la peculiar forma de razonar de su comisario Adamsberg. If you are interested in trying one of Vargas’ books, I would start with the first Adamsberg novel, The Chalk Circle Man. It’s short, fast-paced, and one of her best (it won an International Dagger award.) The first part of the commissioner’s adventures, The Man with the Blue Circleswas published in 1991 by Viviane Hamy editions.O è "colpa" mia, e le vicende di Adamsberg iniziano a stancarmi (ma non propendo per questa ipotesi, perchè io non mi stanco mai di quello che mi piace, vedi De Giovanni e il ciclo di Ricciardi, che ho letto per intero e che leggerei all'infinito senza che il mio interesse cali un briciolo!), oppure è Fred ad essere stanca dei suoi personaggi e ad avere bisogno di cercare nuove trame e nuove storie. Ma esiste anche una terza ipotesi, la più triste e temibile. E cioè che qualcuno stia iniziando a scrivere al posto suo, un po' come sospetto da anni accada con Stephen King, i cui ultimi romanzi, infatti, non hanno nulla (ma proprio nulla!) a che vedere con i suoi capolavori stile "It" o "Shining". Eppure qui lo stile pare lo stesso. E' solo la crescente antipatia fra Adamsberg e Danglard, sempre più distanti, che non mi spiego. Questa volta Danglard assume un comportamento poco piacevole e l’idea di Adamsberg dell’esistenza di più omicidi dietro la morte di alcuni ottuagenari divide il commissariato The Taiwanese-American author and New Yorker contributor Hua Hsu’s Pulitzer prize-winning Stay True (Macmillan, Sept) is finally publishing in the UK. A portrait of Hsu’s friendship with a college friend who died tragically young, it is a richly observed examination of grief, being an outsider and the healing power of art. In the melancholy Father & Son (Picador, Sept), the Soft City author Jonathan Raban, who died at the start of this year, reflects on his relationship with his army captain father, and tells the intertwined stories of his father’s war years, as revealed in his letters to Raban’s mother, and his own recovery from a life-changing stroke.

Sorry, can’t always control myself when it comes to those characters. Oh, and by the way, I’m the hot babe on the right, in case you were wondering. This scientist, an archaeozoologist by training, has meanwhile published two essays on climate change, Humanity in Peril in 2019, then How hot are we going to experience? What solutions to feed us? in 2022. There have been plenty of books written about Britney Spears, including Heart to Heart, which the singer co-wrote with her mother in 2000. But her autobiography The Woman in Me (Gallery, Oct) promises a new level of candour as it covers not just her childhood and early years of fame but the controversial conservatorship that placed her father in control of her medical and financial affairs in 2008, and which was terminated after a sensational court hearing two years ago.

Fred Vargas, a best-selling author

Sono una grande fan di F. Vargas, ho letto tutti i suoi libri e ho accolto con gioia un nuovo romanzo dopo anni in cui non avevo più nulla di suo da leggere. Per questo forse il mio parere è fin troppo positivo, mi rendo conto che è influenzato dall'entusiasmo delle letture precedenti. Infatti è in queste bolle che si annida la quisquiglia che è sfuggita e che nobilita il dubbio, a volte scambiato per accidia, impedendo di comminare la pena definitiva o il verdetto infausto. I sobbalzi della deambulazione mettono in moto le microbolle che gironzolano nel cervello. Si muovono, si incrociano, si scontrano. E quando si cercano dei pensieri è una delle cose da fare. Novelist Fred Vargas, creator of Commissioner Adamsberg, is making a return to crime fiction after a six-year hiatus that left fans impatient, the publisher announced on Tuesday. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hutchinson Heinemann, Oct) by Cat Bohannon