2023-05-09 10:35:01
Commissioner Adamsberg, the hero of Fred Vargas’ books, is back this May 17, in a new novel entitled Under the slab.
Novelist Fred Vargas, creator of Commissioner Adamsberg, is making a return to crime fiction after a six-year hiatus that left fans impatient, the publisher announced on Tuesday.
Under the slabpublished by Flammarion on May 17, is the tenth adventure of this atypical policeman.
For those who are not familiar with the character, the author describes him from the second page as “inhabited by his innate nonchalance, often seeming to touch on negligence” but leading his investigations to “unexplained successes”, in all cases “achieved through opaque methods” and “circular paths where few managed to follow it”.
Between Rennes and Saint-Malo
It had therefore been six years since Fred Vargas had given any news of his investigator. The last time with When the recluse comes outit had been among the best sellers of 2017.
This scientist, an archaeozoologist by training, has meanwhile published two essays on climate change, Humanity in Peril in 2019, then How hot are we going to experience? What solutions to feed us? in 2022.
Under the slab takes Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg to Brittany, between Rennes and Saint-Malo, where a game warden was murdered. And “the Louviec affair” (named after a fictional village in Ille-et-Vilaine) will take on unexpected proportions.
Fred Vargas is the author “of more than fifteen detective novels, translated in 22 countries, adapted for cinema or television”. On television, Jean-Hugues Anglade has lent his features to Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg five times. José Garcia also embodied it once in the cinema.
The first part of the commissioner’s adventures, The Man with the Blue Circleswas published in 1991 by Viviane Hamy editions.
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