Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
by Fred Vargas
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Author: Fred VargasTranslator: Sian Reynolds
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN: 0143112163
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Book Review: Good, but not of her best
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is certainly entertaining and hard to put down once you've started reading. Unlike some of Vargas's books, you're thrown right into the plot, which has been outlined already so I'm not repeating it.
For the first few hundred pages, I thought this book to be one of the best Vargas has written, but last 100 pages don't match. I don't want to give the ending away, so I'll just make some general comments. There are some major surprises - the only problem is that every reader will have realised those surprises long ago and will just shake their head in disbelief at how thick Adamsberg must be not to have realised it. The very end of the book is also improbable beyond belief and after such an interesting start, I felt robbed when I discovered that Vargas seems to just had become tired of the rather long book and hastily put together the worst ending she has written. That's about all I can say without any spoilers :-)
Summary of Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
A #1 bestselling author in France, Fred Vargas repeatedly captivates her many admirers across the globe with suspenseful mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, ?a Gallic cousin to Ruth Rendell?s Chief Inspector Wexford? (The Washington Post). In the same way that Donna Leon?s Commissario Brunetti and Andrea Camilleri?s Inspector Montalbano have won countless fans on this side of the Atlantic due to Penguin?s robust commitment to the best international mystery writing, Vargas?s Commissaire Adamsberg is poised to conquer America in a series of novels that are ?truly original . . . like nothing else in contemporary fiction? (The Sunday Times, London), beginning with Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand.French Books
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