The three evangelists
By: Fred Vargas ; translated by Siân Reynolds
Publisher: Vintage; Vintage Books USA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780099469551
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Debout les morts
Description: 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. As her husband doesn?t give a damn, she asks her new neighbours to dig around the tree to find out if something has been buried. Her neighbours are eccentric: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and sharing the house are three impecunious historians: Mathias, Marc and Lucien ? the three evangelists, as Vandoosler calls them. They accept the job because they are desperate for money and rather curious. When they find nothing and Sophia?s dead body turns up weeks later, they decide to investigate.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2006.

Translated from the French.