The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Please use this thread for any spoilers while reading The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas.

Just finished and thought it was quite good. The ending seemed a little hashed together, though. Nice, quirky characters. I'm going to try some of her other books.

I finished the book, and liked the reparte between Mathilde , Charles, Adamsberg, and Danglard until it stopped. The last third of the book became a different book and I thought suffered for this. We lost the voices Charles and Mathilde; two people vital to the story.

Why hadn’t our author thought of bringing up the point of the missing items from the chalk circle when there was a body? Was this a mistake of the author? Our police? You’d think it would have been discussed—like the bloody gloves they found close to the one site, or the hand laying over the blue circle.

I liked that Mathilde collected people. I would actually like to read a book with her and Charles being the sleuths.

Good point about the missing items. You’d think that would be the first question that the detectives would have for Le Nermord, once he made his confession about being the CCM. “What item had been in them?”

Odd book, but I enjoyed it. I have checked out the next three books. I guess I get to keep them for awhile, as I picked them up before the virus hit the fan.