The Chalk Circle Man Av Fred Vargas

<p><b>Winner of The Crime Writers'' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger</b><br><br>Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn''t search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop.<br><br>When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, only Adamsberg takes them - and the increasingly bizarre objects found within them - seriously. And when the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut is found in one, only Adamsberg realises that other murders will soon follow…<br><br><b>‘The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction’ <i>Guardian</i></b></p>