‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters.

She refuses to speak to anyone besides...

In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the...

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and...

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues;...

Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the...

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their...

Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were...

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents.

But at police...