Fred Vargas_Three Evangelists #1 + #2 (Mystery; Crime) EPUB + MOBI

France’s bestselling and award-winning crime writer Fred Vargas joins Vintage Canada.The Three Evangelists is an enormously entertaining departure from Vargas’s Commissaire Adamsberg series. Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. As her husband doesn’t give a damn, she asks her new neighbours to dig around the tree to find out if something has been buried. Her neighbours are eccentric: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and sharing the house are three impecunious historians: Mathias, Marc and Lucien – the three evangelists, as Vandoosler calls them. They accept the job because they are desperate for money and rather curious. When they find nothing and Sophia’s dead body turns up weeks later, they decide to investigate.From the Trade Paperback edition.



HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?

Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A tiny piece of bone. Human bone, in fact.

When Kehlweiler takes his find to the nearest police station, he faces ridicule. Obsessed by the fragment, he follows the trail to the tiny Breton fishing village of Port-Nicolas – in search of a dog. But when he recruits ‘evangelists’ Marc and Mathias to help, they find themselves facing even bigger game.

A THREE EVANGELISTS NOVEL

Review

A THREE EVANGELISTS NOVEL

• "Move over Scandi crime, the new foreign thriller favourites are the French. And no one is better than Fred Vargas." --Sunday Times

• "The characterisation is imaginative and the plot distinctly quirky... Humour is cast over even the darkest of themes and the oddball central characters entertain as much as the plot intriques." --French Entree

About the Author

Fred Vargas is a French medieval historian and archaeologist by profession, and is now a bestselling crime novelist in Europe. Her Commissaire Adamsberg series of mysteries include The Chalk Circle Man, Have Mercy on Us All, and Wash this Blood Clean from My Hand. She is the first author to win the CWA International Dagger Award four times. Her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.