Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand, Paperback/Fred Vargas

Commissaire Adamsberg is in Quebec on a training mission, when he is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman. The murder fits a pattern of killings that has happened in the past; Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and track down the terrifying killer himself. 'Fred Vargas has a wonderfully offbeat imagination that makes each of her novels a refreshing delight' }Guardian{