About the book: 2024 / A lame ghost wanders through the night streets of a small Breton town, disturbing people with the knock of a wooden leg on the pavement. Once the ghost appears, one of the residents is soon found murdered. Before death, the victims mutter some incomprehensible words, as a result of which it is not just anyone who is under suspicion, but a descendant of Chateaubriand, who also looks like two peas in a pod to the portrait of his great ancestor. Only Commissioner Adamsberg is capable of breaking the investigation's impasse. This, his twelfth investigation, became the best-selling detective novel of the year. The famous Fred Vargas, who gave the world the unforgettable Commissioner Adamsberg with his head in the clouds, returned to the detective genre after six years of silence. Her books have been translated into 32 languages ​​and almost all of them have received prestigious awards - among them five “Trophy 813” awards, the legendary “Ink Blood”, the Grand Prix of Elie magazine readers, three British “Duncan Laurie Daggers”, as well as the Princess Award Asturian, which is called the “Spanish Nobel””.