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Winner of The Crime Writers’ Association Duncan Lawrie International DaggerJean-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… ‘The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction’ Guardian
