After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
Just a few months apart, three men die after having been bitten by a spider, the recluse. In their tight-knit world, the arachnophiles begin to panic: had an overuse of insecticides caused the animal to mutate? But Adamsberg had a much more down-to-earth hypothesis: a two-legged and very human murderer.—Happy_Evil_Dude