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by Fred Vargas (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (3 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099488965
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099488965
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 51,580 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`This is the finest novel yet from the incomparable Fred Vargas'


Waterstone's Books Quarterly
`Vargas is famous for creating gripping crime thrillers and her latest offering is no different... drama and suspense in spades'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Get to the half way mark, 24 Oct 2007
By SJSmith (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Paperback)
This book is amazing! I started it with a struggle. Read the first few chapters and wondered whether or not to put it down and I'm pleased I decided the writing was worth perservering. Fred Vargas has such a good command of language; her writing is tremendous and it was this alone that kept me going. The translation is fine and I can't comment on how much work the translator has done.

The characters take a little bit of time to warm to but Adamsberg, the lead character, has such an amazing mind. Join all of the best detectives together and you have this one. The description of the the characters eventually brings them all to life - male or female. As the narrative is so well written you feel like you're in their minds and unsure who to trust.

The plot is adequately discussed in the blurb that it needs little clarification. Judge Fulgence didn't quite come to life as much as I was hoping but then I felt he wasn't the centre stage here and that it was as much about Adamsberg's journey for truth as it was the story of the Judge.

With unlikely heroes and heroines and the reader being taken down some wonderful paths this novel is one to be savoured rather than devoured. Minor characters change direction and suddenly have massive parts to play; characters that you thought you could trust arouse suspicion. All the elements necessary for a GOOD crime fiction novel.

This is my first novel by Fred Vargas and I would happily read something else she has written. Take your time, don't rush it and if you aren't enjoying it as you approach the half way mark then that's the time to stop.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fred Vargas - Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand, 1 Jan 2008
By RachelWalker "RachelW" (England) - See all my reviews
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I know of no other writer who could possibly pull off the kind of books Vargas writes - eccentric, witty crime novels in which the protagonist wilfully embraces the impossible, and it turn out to be correct. She is a true marvel. Adamsberg is a genius creation - intuitive, thoughtful, stubborn, romantic and very, very interesting. And her plots are works of wicked, imaginative genius as well. She's a marvel and we are immensely lucky that her books are being translated into English. Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand is supremely intelligent crime fiction, written with sprightliness and wit, at the same time as being completely bonkers. It's absolutely first-class entertainment.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The cult of the weird, 2 Feb 2008
Why can I not stop reading Fred Vargas, when her books get on my nerves so much ? Do I enjoy being irritated as well as hooked ? This a bizarre phenonmenon as I know I will carry on reading further adventures of Commissaire Adamsberg yet I find Vargas's latest two books (in french 'Sous les vents de Neptune' and 'Dans les bois eternels') way over the top in term of weirdness with totally incredible, crazy plots. What was initially endearing and quaint in Adamsberg's character and behaviour has become systematic oddities, yet it is true that Vargas is for exactly these very same reasons, a highly unusual crime writer and you will meet in her books characters and stories that no one else could dream of.
A reluctant fan, then, but fan all the same !
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