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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas, a novel which follows a murder investigation, the threat of an epidemic and a town crier all in the centre of contemporary Paris. When people begin to be mysteriously killed and rumours abound that the plague is at the heart of the matter, Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg opens up an investigation to get to the bottom of the case. Have Mercy on Us All was Vargas's first novel to be translated into English, and it was later made into a film which was released in 2007. Fred Vargas is a French writer, historian and archaeologist who has written several series of detective novels. She has won a range of literary awards, both in France and abroad.

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