''This Night's Foul Work'' is a crime-novel by French author
Fred Vargas
Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 7 June 1957), a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.
As a historian and archeologist, she is known for her work on the Black Death. Her crime fiction ''policiers'' ( ...
, an entry in her Commissaire Adamsberg series. The novel is translated into English by Sian Reynolds, translator of Vargas' two previous novels in English, both of which won the
Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for best-translated crime novel of the year.
This Night's Foul Work marks the first time Random House have published one of her novels in
hardcover. The title comes from a line of impromptu verse spoken by one of the characters.
2006 French novels
Novels by Fred Vargas
French mystery novels
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