The Accordionist
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018
When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like an open-and-shut case.
Desperate for a chance to prove his innocence, Clément disappears. He seeks refuge with old Marthe, the only mother figure he has ever known, who calls in ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler.
Louis is soon faced with his most complex case yet and he calls on some unconventional friends to help him. He must show that Clément is not responsible and solve a fiendish riddle to find the killer...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Vargas's stunning conclusion to her Three Evangelists trilogy (after Dog Will Have His Day) rewards the careful reader. In the summer of 1997, Paris is preoccupied with a killer who has attacked two seemingly random female victims, strangling them before stabbing them multiple times. The police are zeroing in on a street musician, the accordionist of the title, who admits to spying on the dead women for several days before the murders. The suspect, Cl ment Vauquer, although mentally impaired, is aware of his jeopardy, and seeks out his one friend in the world, Marthe Gardel, an elderly woman who took him under her wing during his childhood. Marthe, in turn, reaches out to Louis Kehlweiler, a retired Ministry of the Interior investigator, who's eager for a distraction from his paid work as a translator. Aided by three eccentric historians, Louis undertakes to clear Cl ment, despite the circumstantial evidence against him. Vargas combines humor, oddball characters, and a classic puzzle mystery for another winner.
