**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 "Spry, ironic, yet fully engaged with the horror of contemporary reality." --_
This Poison Will Remain
✍ Scribed by Fred Vargas
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group; Penguin, Siân Reynolds
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Series
- A Commissaire Adamsberg mystery
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 0525505458
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✦ Synopsis
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
"Spry, ironic, yet fully engaged with the horror of contemporary reality."
--Los Angeles Times
"A wildly imaginative series." --_The New York Times
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A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly into the region of Nimes, where three old men have died of spider bites. The recluse has a sneaky attack, but is that enough to explain the deaths of these men, all killed by the same venom?
At the National Museum of Natural History, Adamsberg meets a pensioner who tells him that two of the three octogenarians have known each other since childhood, when they lived in a local orphanage called The Mercy. There, they had belonged to a small group...
✦ Subjects
Fiction
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