An Uncertain Place

"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers."--Martin Walker, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police Series

"A wildly imaginative series."--The New York Times

From the #1 bestselling French author and four-time winner of the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award.

When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of London's Highgate Cemetery just a few days earlier. With the help of the murdered man's gifted physician, Adamsberg delves into the victim's disturbed psyche and unexpectedly finds himself on a path that takes him deep into the haunted past of Eastern Europe, where a centuries-old horror has come to life and is claiming victims far and wide.

Author: Fred Vargas
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/25/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780143120049

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/12/2011
Booklist 10/01/2011 pg. 35
Library Journal 10/15/2011 pg. 79
Romantic Times 11/01/2011 pg. 78 - Excellent
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2011
New York Times Book Review 11/20/2011 pg. 25

About the Author
Fred Vargas, historian and archaeologist, is a number-one bestselling author in France, Germany and Italy. She is the author of eight novels featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, and has won the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award three out of the last five years.