An Uncertain Place

Fred Vargas, Siân Reynolds, Sian Reynolds

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Vintage
01 June 2012

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Commissaire Adamsberg

Severed feet are found outside Highgate Cemetery; a violent murder is committed in Paris - can Commissaire Adamsberg unravel the links between these two cases?

Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. The city offers a welcome change of scenery until a gruesome discovery is made - just outside the gates of Highgate Cemetery a pile of shoes, all containing severed feet, is found.

Returning to Paris, the three men are then confronted with the violent killing and dismemberment of a wealthy, elderly man. Both the dead man's son and gardener have motives for murder, but soon another candidate for the killing emerges. As Adamsberg investigates the links between these two unsettling crimes, he puts himself at terrible risk.

By: Fred Vargas
Translated by: Siân Reynolds, Sian Reynolds
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 287g
ISBN: 9780099552239
ISBN 10: 009955223X
Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. As well as being a best-selling author in France, she is an historian and archaeologist.

Reviews for An Uncertain Place

As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion -- Annabella Bankhouse * Times Literary Supplement * Wonderfully intricate and gothic -- Jane Jakeman * Independent * Frederique Vargas['s]...imaginative characters put most of America's top-rated crime writers to shame * Observer * One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *