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|title=Dog Will Have His Day

|author=Fred Vargas

|publisher=Harvill Secker

|date=April 2014

|summary=In English after an eighteen year wait, this early Vargas is perhaps too off-kilter – and for such a clever-clever author that's saying a lot.

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Despite losing his official post, Louis Kehlweiler still has the contacts, the drive, and seemingly nothing else to do, to keep him solving crimes. While using a certain park bench to trail a potentially suspect connection between someone nefarious and a politician's relative, he finds something else to spark his interest. Where, hours before, there had just been dog mess, now there is also a human toe bone. Clearly there is a crime, although nobody is reporting anything like having a half a toe missing. But not even he could predict what the simple legwork of trailing passing dog-owners would lead to…