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Biographical note
Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.<b>One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic</b>
The Times
<b>Few contemporary crime thrillers can match Vargas's soaring imaginative flights</b>
- Joan Smith, Sunday Times
This is <b>wonderful, quirky stuff, a world away from formulaic crime fiction</b>
- Andrew Taylor, Spectator
Vargas is <b>an addictive writer </b>whose surreal touches create a curiously solid world. Her occasional whimsy somehow turns into comment both trenchant and funny
- Jane Jakeman, Independent
<b>A cool, clever, original and deeply humane crime writer</b>
Times Literary Supplement