# The Chalk Circle Man

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- Book: [The Chalk Circle Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/the-chalk-circle-man) ([The Chalk Circle Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/the-chalk-circle-man.md))
- Authors: [Fred Vargas](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Sian Reynolds
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4816-349-6
- Published: 2014-07-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas’s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series ‘The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction’ Guardian 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. 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… ‘Rich and witty' Independent **Winner of The CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger**