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Violence
Some
A disappearance and a murder; the mysterious tree is the atmospheric opening
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The three historians' very different ways of thinking about the same problem; the Paris intellectual world and the specific kind of amateur investigation that emerges from unemployment and proximity
What this book is about
Three historians — unemployed, sharing a Paris house — find themselves next-door to a mystery: a young singer has disappeared and a tree has appeared overnight in her garden. The historians, having nothing else to do, investigate. Fred Vargas's novel introduces both the Three Evangelists (Marc, Mathias, Lucien) and their colleague Commissaire Adamsberg, and the book is as much character study as mystery — three very different intellectual temperaments being drawn into a kind of detective work they hadn't anticipated and find they're suited for.
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Fred Vargas standalone introducing the Three Evangelists; Paris setting
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