Fred Vargas
France
Frédérique Vargas is an archaeologist and historian whose imaginative characters put most of America’s top-rated crime writers to shame. One of her Commissaire Adamsberg series revolves around a modern-day town crier in Paris; another follows a trail of mutilated sheep, and a third features a detective who talks in verse and – while on witness protection duty, and from the safety of a broom cupboard – writes down the works of Racine in large letters so his grandmother can read them. Vargas’s novels have deservedly won many awards
弗雷德·瓦加斯
法國
瓦加斯是一個考古學家和歷史學家,她那極富想象力的人物創(chuàng)造可以使大部分美國頂級犯罪小說作家自慚形穢。Commissaire Adamsberg系列中的一本是圍繞著一個巴黎的現(xiàn)代城市公告員展開的;另一本則從一只受殘傷的綿羊留下的血跡找到了線索;第三本刻畫了一位言辭如詩的偵探,他在保護證人以及一架金雀花櫥柜的安全,在他寫給老祖母的大號字的信中一切秘密漸漸揭開。瓦加斯的小說已經名至實歸地獲得了許多獎項。