** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month ** The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from
France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star **A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
2020** 'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain'
ANN CLEEVES After three elderly men are bitten by spiders everyone assumes that their deaths
are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris Inspector Adamsberg begins to
suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn't long before Adamsberg is
investigating a series of rumours and allegations that take him to the south of France. Decades
ago at La Miséricorde orphanage shocking events took place involving the same species of
spider: the recluse. For Adamsberg these haunting crimes hold the key to proving that the
three men were targeted by an ingenious serial killer. His team however is not convinced. He
must put his reputation on the line to trace the murderer before the death toll rises...
_______________________ PRAISE FOR THIS POISON WILL REMAIN: 'Absorbing... Full of twists and
spiced with Vargas's characteristic wit and style' PETER ROBINSON 'Vargas is an addictive
writer whose surreal touches create a curiously solid world' INDEPENDENT 'Vargas's books
are...cunning corkscrew murder mysteries' A.J. FINN
