博客來最初的過錯，第一次謀殺。幽靈大概都是從這類事情衍生出來的。
「三叉耙」是巨人，是魔鬼，是地獄來的海神波賽頓。舉起三叉武器插入腹部，一刺斃命，在被害人身上留下一排三個紅色窟窿。
「要殺人，至少得對其他人有熱情，能被捲入他們的風暴之中，甚至對他們所象徵的事物著迷。殺人必須有關係上的變質、有過度的反應，以及與他人的過度混淆。在這種混淆下，另一人不再是原來的他，而是能夠以犧牲者來對待的物體。」
如今酒精麻痺了肌肉，他便可以思索，可以開始嘗試看清終於隨海神影像從洞穴中冒出來的怪獸。可怕的祕密入侵者，頑強、高傲的兇手，他稱之為「三叉耙」。三十年前，那個始終在逃的殺人犯攪得他生活動盪不安。十四年間，他不斷追蹤、圍捕，每次都希望捉到他，卻又不斷讓行蹤飄忽的獵物逃脫，追了落空，繼續再追。多年後他還是又落後一步，他為此放棄希望，甚至失去弟弟。
為了摯愛弟弟的清白，探長尚－巴堤斯特．亞當斯柏格鍥而不捨的追查一樁樁三叉耙命案的真相，緊咬著已死的疑犯不放，他堅信新近的命案是「三叉耙」的復活宣告，力排眾議誓言將「三叉耙」緝捕歸案，但最後自己卻成了無家可歸、四處躲藏的國際通緝犯，他到底是聲名遠播的探長，還是人人懼怕的殺人犯？死者身上那三個染血的窟窿裡，究竟藏著什麼樣不可告人的黑暗祕辛？
In this remarkable addition to the Commissaire Adamsberg series, has a serial killer followed Adamsberg to Canada on his training mission?
Between 1943 and 2003, nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crime and were sentenced to life. One slightly worrying detail: all the presumed murderers lost consciousness during the night of the crime and cannot remember whether they actually did it or not. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person: the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg’s own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg’s help. History now repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered his young lover. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence. The heir to Maigret, Commissaire Adamsberg is back in a new investigation that will keep the reader spellbound until the very last word.
★本書原法文書名: Sous les vents de neptune
★本書中譯版《海神疑雲》由台灣商務出版。
作者簡介
弗雷德．瓦格斯 Fred Vargas
本名Frederique Audoin-Rouzeau，1957年生於法國巴黎，專長為研究中古世紀歷史與考古。著作屢屢獲獎，連續多年蟬聯法國十大暢銷小說作家，光是「亞當斯柏格探長系列」作品在法國就累積超過數百萬冊銷量，並已譯成數十種語言在全球出版發行。其筆下的偵探小說世界，最著重的就是：分析線索與發掘真相，這正與她在行的考古挖掘工作雷同──在表象之下，探索各個人物內心深處以及挖掘隱藏在各個事件背後的祕密。
Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. As well as being a bestselling author in France, she is by training an historian and archaeologist. She was the winner of the inaugural British Crime Writers’ Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for her novel The Three Evangelists.
