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An Uncertain Place

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099552239

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £8.99

An Uncertain Place

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099552239

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic

    Marcel Berlins, The Times

  • Frederique Vargas['s]...imaginative characters put most of America's top-rated crime writers to shame

    Observer

  • Wonderfully intricate and gothic

    Jane Jakeman, Independent

  • An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion

    Annabella Bankhouse, Times Literary Supplement

  • As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read

    Joan Smith, Sunday Times

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About the Author

Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.

Fred Vargas

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