by Fred Vargas · Editions Viviane Hamy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782878580686
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«Debout les morts» is the crime novel by Fred Vargas, published by Editions Viviane Hamy in paperback (272 pages, in French).
A beech tree appears overnight in the garden of singer Sophia Siméonidis, in Paris. The owner stops sleeping and disappears shortly after. Her three neighbours, struggling investigators, and ex-policeman Vandoosler investigate what the tree's roots hide, until unearthing an old story of jealousy and resentment from fifteen years ago.
First instalment of the Les Évangélistes series; part of the Chemins nocturnes collection. Winner of the CWA International Dagger 2006.
For readers of crime fiction in French, especially those who want to start with the first instalment of Les Évangélistes.
Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.
