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When chalk circles begin to appear across Parisian neighborhoods, Commissaire Jean‑Baptiste Adamsberg notices their increasingly sinister details. As he tracks each new mark and the odd objects they contain, he discerns the cruel hand of an unseen perpetrator. The discovery of a circle containing a woman with her throat cut signals that this disturbing series of crimes is only getting started, and Adamsberg must unravel the mystery before more lives are lost.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Fred Vargas
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