"When Commissaire Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he

"Crime, suspense, and marital woes combine in this atmospheric procedural set in the seemingly quiet Mediterranean town of Perpignan"--Amazon.

Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nîmes, all killed by the venom of the recl