Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #884288 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-07
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Synopsis
On the edge of Paris, two men have had their throats cut. Adamsberg's investigation brings him into contract with the pathologist Amane Lagarde, someone he had come up against twenty-five years previously. A new lieutenant appears hostile to him, and what is more, he is from a neighbouring village in the Pyrenees. He helps out Camille by babysitting their son, but fears she may have found someone else. The "Eternal Forest" is the finest novel yet from the wonderful Fred Vargas.

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully Strange
Like most of the Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries, Fred Vargas has here turned Paris and Normandy into places of mystery populated by highly original and eccentric beings-both good and evil. I read this book in three sittings (and lost some sleep for it) because I couldn't put the book down. Vargas not only creates a suspenseful mystery but like the best genre writers tells the story of a culture, even going back to her specialty, medieval archeology, for inspiration. Adamsberg is surrounded here by his usual, very odd group of investigators. Even the obvious dei-ex-machine that she uses from time to time to move the plot forward don't irritate because the characters and the energy of the plot keep you always going forward. Only one critique; there a number of typos in the book that become irritating after a point. I hope the publisher fixes this in the next printing.