In Fred Vargas’ fourth Commissaire Adamsberg mystery, AN UNCERTAIN PLACE the chief of the Serious Crimes Squad in Paris Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his colleagues Commandant Danglard, and young Sergeant Estalere are in London for a conference. On an evening stroll with DCI Radstock they are called to Highgate Cemetery.
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In Fred Vargas’ fourth Commissaire Adamsberg mystery, AN UNCERTAIN PLACE the chief of the Serious Crimes Squad in Paris Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his colleagues Commandant Danglard, and young Sergeant Estalere are in London for a conference. On an evening stroll with DCI Radstock they are called to Highgate Cemetery to examine shoes left outside the gates. The trouble is the shoes have severed feet left inside them.
Once home the squad is called to a horrific crime scene in the leafy suburb of Darche, where Pierre Vaudel, a reclusive semi-retired legal-journalist, has been massacred, his body crushed to pieces. Vaudel had disinherited his son and left his fortune to his gardener, a man with a history of violence.
Adamsberg’s investigation leads him to a Serbian village, and into great danger from both the mysterious perpetrator and from those in power who don’t want the case to be solved.
The crime squad characters are very quirky: the forgetful and scruffy Adamsberg, the alcoholic walking encyclopedia Danglard, the goddess like Retancourt, and Froissy, who has a panic attack when she misses a meal.
Fred Vargas combines humor, folklore, horror, witty dialogue, bizarre plot, and eccentric characters to create a mystery full of twists and turns.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FRED VARGAS was born in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is a number one bestselling author in France, Germany, and Italy. She is the author of seven novels featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, including Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand, This Night’s Foul Work, and The Chalk Circle Man, also available from Penguin. Her books have been published in forty countries and have sold more that 10 million copies.