# This Night's Foul Work

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- Book: [This Night's Foul Work](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/this-nights-foul-work) ([This Night's Foul Work.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/this-nights-foul-work.md))
- Authors: [Fred Vargas](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9950-762-8
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2009-02-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison. Is there a connection between the three cases? In this mystery, Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against nemeses past and present: Ariane Lagarde, France's foremost pathologist and Adamsberg's enemy since they argued over a case twenty-three years earlier, and Louis Veyrenc, a new recruit with a grudge, who has been assigned the job of protecting the Commissaire's ex-girlfriend. As the different strands of Vargas's compelling story begin to intertwine, events move towards a gripping climax... Shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.