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Fred Vargas

Spring Crime in Paris Blooms with Possibilities

By Crime HQ

April 28, 2014

In spring, is there anywhere more seductive than France? In case you're itching for some armchair travel, here are links with something to fill any francophile crime fan with joie de vivre: Looking for a simply huge list of reading recommendations? From different styles and eras, here's an assortment of thirty different books set in…

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Nominees and Winners of the 2013 CWA Dagger Awards!

By Crime HQ

September 27, 2013

The Crime Writers’ Association announced the shortlists for the remaining three CWA 2013 Daggers. The winners will be announced October 24th, at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2013.     The shortlisted authors are: Goldsboro Gold Dagger: Rubbernecker   by Belinda Bauer The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Dead Lions by Mick Herron Rage Against…

Fred Vargas/ credit: Guardian and Eamonn Mc Cabe

Fred Vargas: History Behind Paris’s Curious Thrills?

By Peggy Ehrhart

June 18, 2011

I discovered Fred Vargas on the plane coming back from France. In real life she’s Frédérique Audouin-Rouzeau (Fred as the short form of her name, and Vargas from Ava Gardner’s character in The Barefoot Contessa), a French historian/archaeologist with many books to her credit, among them seven mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg.  Six have been…

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