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A chilling tale of suspicious deaths in the Icelandic mists, and the coldness of Robespierre and the Terror, from France´s bestselling crime writer and four-time winner of the CWA International Dagger

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THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL

A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder made to look like a suicide. A strange symbol is found near the body.

Then a second victim is discovered, who was also part of a group of tourists on a doomed expedition to Iceland ten years earlier.

How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic demon, linked to the secretive Association for the Study of the Writings of Maximilien Robespierre? And what does the mysterious symbol signify?

Commissaire Adamsberg is about to find out.

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"French crime queen´s new mystery - her best yet." Sunday Times

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Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.

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