Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Sadie Jones
Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it.
Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help.
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.
Winner of the 2007 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for The Three Evangelists.
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Susanna Yager
Sunday Telegraph
Vargas has a wonderfully offbeat imagination that makes each of her novels a refreshing delight
Peter Guttridge
Observer
Establishes Vargas beyond doubt as a cool, clever, original and deeply humane crime writer
Heather O’Donoghue
Times Literary Supplement
It is enthralling and great fun from start to finish... all done with great verve, wit and invention
Allan Massie
Scotsman
There is a haunting quality to Vargas's writing
Kath Murphy
Scotland on Sunday
A rising star within the narrow field of good, intellectual crime novels... Vargas has a marvellous way with landscape and secondary characters
Carrie O’Grady
Guardian
It's her winning blend of empathy, humour and moral determination that places her books in the best-seller charts
Christian House
Independent on Sunday
Elegant plotting and misfit characters, gives US blockbusters a run for their money
Saga magazine
Vargas's weightiest and most ambitious tome, but shot through with that nervy and sardonic Gallic humour that is her métier
Good Book Guide
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand firmly demonstrates why Vargas is spoken of in such warm terms by admirers... universal in its cutting psychology, and the personalities of her characters are rendered with off-kilter skill
Barry Forshaw & Laura Wilson
The Times, The best crime novels of the decade