"Wildly imaginative."--The New York Times
"Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to
watch in action."--Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author
of the Inspector Banks series
Three wounds in a perfectly straight line was the bloody signature that
marked victims from every corner of France who had been murdered over
the course of thirty years. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the
chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is deeply and personally
familiar with the case, and though others were always framed and
convicted for these crimes, including his own brother, the Commissaire
knows the true identity of the killer--and knows that the murderer died
in 1987. All the more disturbing, then, is Adamsberg's discovery one
morning of a fresh murder with exactly the same profile...