An Uncertain Place-Quality Guarantee

Description

“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 ofthe Crime Writers’ Association’s International Dagger Award.

When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police inParis’s seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly andhighly unusual murder, he thinks it can’t have anything to do with thenine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of London’sHighgate Cemetery just a few days earlier. With the help of themurdered man’s gifted physician, Adamsberg delves into the victim’sdisturbed psyche and unexpectedly finds himself on a path that takeshim deep into the haunted past of Eastern Europe, where a centuries-oldhorror has come to life and is claiming victims far and wide.