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A review by offmessage
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
3.0
It's not often that the translation gets in the way, but it does in this one. So much so that I was convinced this was a different translator from books 1 and 2, so sloppy and ill-formed is the English. Which is a shame, because Commissaire Adamsberg continues to be a fascinating character and Fred Vargas' weirdly metaphysical wanderings around tightly plotted Parisian police procedurals continue to be right up my street.
Despite being huge sellers in France these aren't making the leap to English that perhaps they deserve. But then, it's not like we're short of native English-speaking crime writers, is it?
Despite being huge sellers in France these aren't making the leap to English that perhaps they deserve. But then, it's not like we're short of native English-speaking crime writers, is it?