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    <body><![CDATA[Jâ€™ai dÃ©vorÃ© ce livre en moins de deux. Debout les morts nous prÃ©sente un insolite trio dâ€™historiens fauchÃ©s, Marc le mÃ©diÃ©viste, Mathias le prÃ©historien, et Lucien le contemporÃ©aniste de 14/18, qui occupent chacun un Ã©tage dâ€™une baraque pourrie quâ€™ils partagent avec un vieux flic rÃ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17862356">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fred Vargas is probably the best detective fiction writer EVER. Her world is poetic, her characters are charming. Her novels are neither gory nor cosy. A must-read.<br/><br/>The three evangelists are particularly interesting: all three of them are historians, living in the same house: one is a spe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5465497">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Meticulously plotted and atmospheric murder mystery. Three young historians (paleolithic, medieval, WWI specialists, respectively) and the disgraced former police officer uncle of one of them, move into a dilapidated house in Paris next door to a retired opera singer on one side and a beautiful rest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44771087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fred Vargas is a woman, and French. The former is certainly no obstacle to writing a fun mystery novel; the latter makes the flavour of the language interesting (I'm reading in translation, though). I was loaned this book by a colleague, who says Vargas is all the rage in France just now - a French ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49967184">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This enjoyable whodunnit tends towards the Agatha Christie style of mystery more than the &quot;blood spurting everywhere&quot; brand of crime novel. Three eccentric 30something historians, plus an elderly and crooked ex-cop, investigate the disappearance of their neighbour, a retired opera singer....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64984765">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had really looked forward to reading this book; I had heard such good things about Fred Vargas (a woman) and her mysteries.  For some reason this book did not grab me as I had hoped; perhaps something was lost in translation--she wrote her books in French.  Other reviews here on Goodreads are quit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63970408">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Un matin, la cantatrice Sophia Sim??onidis d??couvre, dans son jardin, un arbre qu'elle ne conna??t pas. Un h??tre. Qui l'a plant?? l?? ? Pourquoi ? Pierre, son mari, n'en a que faire. Mais la cantatrice, elle, s'inqui??te, en perd le sommeil, finit par demander ?? ses voisins, trois jeunes types un peu d??jant??s, de creuser sous l'arbre, pour voir si... Quelques semaines plus tard, Sophia dispara??t tandis qu'on d??couvre un cadavre calcin??. Est-ce le sien ? La police enqu??te. Les voisins aussi. Sophia, ils l'aimaient bien. L'??trange apparition du h??tre n'en devient que plus ??nigmatique.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another superb novel from Fred Vargas.  Not an Inspector Adamsberg novel this time, but rather the story of four roommates: Mathias, Marc, Lucien, and Vandoosler.  Mathias, Marc, and Lucien (the &quot;three evangelists&quot;) are all historians, but in vastly different fields.  Vandoosler is Marc's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17539567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this interesting... because it is so different.  Vargas has an intriguing style... and I can appreciate it as being 'good'.  I'm just not sold on whether or not I like it.  I was not a huge fan of any of the characters in this book... I didn't 'feel' for any of them, other than Sophia.  Perh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76883468">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Que se levanten los muertos]]>
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    <![CDATA[Tres jÃ³venes historiadores en paro no parecen el equipo mÃ¡s idÃ³neo para resolver un caso de homicidio cuyas causas se remontan hasta un pasado lejano, lleno de rencor y celos. Pero, en ocasiones, el entusiasmo, la intuiciÃ³n y la capacidad de anÃ¡lisis consiguen mÃ¡s de lo que podamos imaginar. El escenario: una calle del centro de ParÃ­s, donde todo el mundo se conoce y nunca pasa nada, pero nada pasa desapercibido...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Me gusta Fred Vargas, su humor mÃ¡s que sus tramas, su ironÃ­a mÃ¡s que la construcciÃ³n de sus personajes. Siempre sonrÃ­o con sus historias y eso tambiÃ©n tiene su mÃ©rito. SÃ­, me gusta Vargas]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Die schÃ¶ne Diva von Saint- Jaques.]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Die pure finanzielle Not hat drei franzÃ¶sische Historiker zusammengewÃ¼rfelt: Matthias, der JÃ¤ger und Sammler, den die FrÃ¼hgeschichte fasziniert, Marc, der alles Ã¼ber das Mittelalter weiÃŸ und Lucien, der Spezialist fÃ¼r den Ersten Weltkrieg. ZustÃ¤ndig fÃ¼r die aktuelle Zeitgeschichte ist der Pate Marcs, ein ehemaliger Polizei-Kommissar. Zusammen beziehen sie ein heruntergekommenes Haus im sÃ¼dlichen Paris.<p>  Sie alle sind von ihrer schÃ¶nen Nachbarin, einer ehemaligen OpernsÃ¤ngerin, angetan, die eines Tages spurlos verschwindet. Hat sie ihren treulosen Ehemann endgÃ¼ltig verlassen und ist zurÃ¼ck nach Griechenland, zu ihrem Jugendfreund? MerkwÃ¼rdig, daÃŸ sie ihrer Nichte nicht Bescheid gegeben hat, die mit ihrem kleinen Jungen aus Lyon zu Besuch kommt.<p>  Die vier MÃ¤nner, die sich privat ganz gut verstehen, doch beruflich einander spinnefeind sind, beginnen zu kombinieren. SchlieÃŸlich ist man &quot;kein Historiker, wenn man nicht schnÃ¼ffeln kann&quot;. Sehr hilfreich dabei sind die beruflichen Beziehungen, die Marcs Patenonkel noch immer in das Kommissariat hat.<p>  Bis jedoch geklÃ¤rt ist, welche Rolle der von unbekannter Hand frisch gepflanzte Baum im Garten der SÃ¤ngerin spielt, denn diese Buche ist bei der LÃ¶sung des Falles von entscheidender Bedeutung, lÃ¤ÃŸt die franzÃ¶sische Autorin mit dem mÃ¤nnlichen Namen Fred Vargas ihre vier Detektive tÃ¼chtig die grauen Zellen strapazieren. Immer wieder nimmt die Handlung eine neue, unerwartete Wendung, werden Details aus dem Vorleben bekannt, die, neu angeordnet, einen vÃ¶llig neuen Zusammenhang ergeben.<p>  Ihren nÃ¤chsten Fall <em>Der untrÃ¶stliche Witwer von Montparnasse</em> klÃ¤rt das ungleiche Team im Folgeband. <em>-- Manuela Haselberger</em></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually don't read crime novels, but this one was different. It surprised me especially in the way the characters were connected, their lives intertwined and the story was well-thought through. The last few chapters were full of suspense, and all in all, the plot was entertaining and worked well. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49069894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Three Evangelists]]>
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    <![CDATA[Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree - both because they need the money and out of sheer curiosity - to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there. They find nothing but soil. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend? Or could it be her lovely niece recently moved to the capital? They all seem to have a motive. Vandoosler and the three evangelists set out to find the truth.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting - sort of a quirky, light-hearted murder mystery with serious undertones,e specially towards the end.  Apparently this woman (Frederique Vargas) seems like a French version of Agatha Christie with a popular, award-winning murder-mystery writing career.  She has published over 50 boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4768387">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Three Evangelists]]>
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    <![CDATA[Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree - both because they need the money and out of sheer curiosity - to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there. They find nothing but soil. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend? Or could it be her lovely niece recently moved to the capital? They all seem to have a motive. Vandoosler and the three evangelists set out to find the truth.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sure, I'm not really a contemporary mystery buff. But I cannot possibly imagine anyone writing a better one than Ms. Vargas. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Debout les Morts]]>
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    <![CDATA[Un matin, la cantatrice Sophia Sim??onidis d??couvre, dans son jardin, un arbre qu'elle ne conna??t pas. Un h??tre. Qui l'a plant?? l?? ? Pourquoi ? Pierre, son mari, n'en a que faire. Mais la cantatrice, elle, s'inqui??te, en perd le sommeil, finit par demander ?? ses voisins, trois jeunes types un peu d??jant??s, de creuser sous l'arbre, pour voir si... Quelques semaines plus tard, Sophia dispara??t tandis qu'on d??couvre un cadavre calcin??. Est-ce le sien ? La police enqu??te. Les voisins aussi. Sophia, ils l'aimaient bien. L'??trange apparition du h??tre n'en devient que plus ??nigmatique.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Je n'avais jamais lu un roman de gare, c'est chose faite.<br/>Bien sur, pas volontairement, il ne faut pas exagÃ©rer...<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Debout les Morts]]>
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    <![CDATA[Un matin, la cantatrice Sophia Sim??onidis d??couvre, dans son jardin, un arbre qu'elle ne conna??t pas. Un h??tre. Qui l'a plant?? l?? ? Pourquoi ? Pierre, son mari, n'en a que faire. Mais la cantatrice, elle, s'inqui??te, en perd le sommeil, finit par demander ?? ses voisins, trois jeunes types un peu d??jant??s, de creuser sous l'arbre, pour voir si... Quelques semaines plus tard, Sophia dispara??t tandis qu'on d??couvre un cadavre calcin??. Est-ce le sien ? La police enqu??te. Les voisins aussi. Sophia, ils l'aimaient bien. L'??trange apparition du h??tre n'en devient que plus ??nigmatique.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely a book for reading on the beach - <br/>Easy, entertaining , but forgettable.]]></body>
    
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