Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas

Author:Fred Vargas [Vargas, Fred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General
ISBN: 9780307366115
Google: -gmCSqjFVjMC
Amazon: 0143112163
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2007-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

In spite of all his resolutions, Adamsberg could not think calmly about the ghastly connection which had brought him face to face with the Trident half way across the world. The dead can travel fast, like lightning. He had felt the danger in the little church in Montreal, when Vivaldi had whispered to him that Fulgence knew he was on his trail and he’d better watch out. Vivaldi, the judge, the quintet, that was all he had time to think about before he fell asleep.

Retancourt knocked at his door towards midday, local time. His hair was still wet, he had just finished dressing and the prospect of starting the day by a conversation with his steely lieutenant did not cheer him up. He would have preferred to lie down and think, that is, wander through the million particles of his mind, which were now completely mixed up in the damned process wells. But Retancourt sat down calmly on the bed, placing on the low table a thermos of real coffee – how had she managed that? – two cups and some fresh rolls.

‘I went downstairs to get these,’ she explained. ‘Then if those two guys turn up early, we can talk in private here. Mitch Portelance’s face would ruin my appetite.’

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