# A Climate of Fear

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- Book: [A Climate of Fear](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/a-climate-of-fear) ([A Climate of Fear.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/a-climate-of-fear.md))
- Authors: [Fred Vargas](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Sian Reynolds
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-398-2
- Published: 2016-07-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

*Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade* THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017 A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland. How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic demon, linked to a secretive local society? And what does the mysterious sign mean? Commissaire Adamsberg is about to find out.