Wash this blood clean from my hand

Three wounds in a perfectly straight line was the bloody signature that marked victims from every corner of France who had been murdered at regular intervals over the course of thirty years. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is familiar with the old case, and knows that the killer died in 1987. Al...

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Main Author: Vargas, Fred 1957-
Other Authors: Reynolds, Sian
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
Series:A Commissaire Adamsberg mystery.
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Summary:Three wounds in a perfectly straight line was the bloody signature that marked victims from every corner of France who had been murdered at regular intervals over the course of thirty years. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is familiar with the old case, and knows that the killer died in 1987. All the more disturbing then, is Adamsberg's discovery one morning of a fresh murder with exactly the same profile. Stunned into action--and himself a suspect--Adamsberg must confront the mysterious return of an old, familiar evil.
Item Description:"A Penguin mystery original"--P. [4] of cover.
Physical Description:388 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9780143112167
0143112163
Author Notes:Fred Vargas is a French medieval historian and archaeologist who has a parallel career as a bestselling crime novelist. She adopted the pseudonym from her twin sister, an artist who works as Jo Vargas--after Ava Gardner's character in The Barefoot Contessa . She has published ten mysteries, five of which feature Commissaire Adamsberg. Her detective fiction is published in 32 languages.