MORE THAN 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 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 & 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
- & the increasingly bizarre objects found within them
- seriously & when the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut is found in one only Adamsberg realises that other murders will soon follow Winner of The Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger