| This Night's Foul Work | |
| Title Orig: | Dans les bois éternels |
| Translator: | Sian Reynolds |
| Author: | Fred Vargas |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Series: | Commissaire Adamsberg |
| Genre: | Crime novel |
| Publisher: | Viviane Hamy (French) Harvill Secker (English) |
| Release Date: | 2006 |
| English Pub Date: | 7 February 2008 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 442 pp (French) 416 pp (English) |
| Isbn: | 2-87858-233-0 |
| Isbn Note: | (French) (English) |
| Congress: | PQ2682.A725 D36 2006 |
| Oclc: | 68990369 |
| Preceded By: | Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand |
| Followed By: | An Uncertain Place |
This Night's Foul Work is a 2008 crime-novel by French author Fred Vargas, an entry in her Commissaire Adamsberg series. The novel is translated into English by Sian Reynolds, translator of Vargas' two previous novels in English,[1] both of which won the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for best-translated crime novel of the year.[2]
This Night's Foul Work marks the first time Random House have published one of her novels in hardcover. The title comes from a line of impromptu verse spoken by one of the characters.
The book received mixed reviews. Kirkus Reviews gave a negative review of the book, writing that it was "sub-par performance", while Publishers Weekly praised it, calling it "outstanding."