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mystery-thriller,
published-2004,
france,
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canada,
quebec,
paper-read,
sciences,
series,
tbr-busting-2015,
snow-times,
next,
bettie-s-law-of-excitement-lost
Read from April 25, 2010 to February 02, 2015
** spoiler alert ** Description:
History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence.Opening:
Leaning his shoulder against the dark basement wall, Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg stood contemplating the enormous central heating boiler which had suddenly stopped working two days before.
So much here should of satisfied, not least the DNA course, a subject which I am studying myself at the moment, and the appealing snowy setting up with the Mounties.
Afamsberg's trippy incidents was a real turn-off, and I could find no character to become involved with at a level which could of turned that initial distaste into a pleasure.