This Night's Foul Work

This Night's Foul Work

Infobox Book |
name = This Night's Foul Work
title_orig = Dans les bois éternels
translator = Sian Reynolds


image_caption = 1st English edition
author = Fred Vargas
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = Commissaire Adamsberg
genre = Crime novel
publisher = Viviane Hamy (French)
Harvill Secker (English)
release_date = 2006
english_pub_date = 7 February, 2008
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 442 pp (French)
416 pp (English)
isbn = ISBN 2-87858-233-0 (French)
ISBN 1-84655-186-2 (English)
preceded_by = Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
followed_by = A Dubious Place

"This Night's Foul Work" is a crime-novel by French author Fred Vargas, an entry in her Commissaire Adamsberg series. The novel is translated into English by Sian Reynolds, translator of Vargas' two previous novels in English, both of which won the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for best translated crime novel of the year.

This Night's Foul Work marks the first time Random House have published one of her novels in hardcover. The title comes from a line of impromptu verse spoken by one of the characters.


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