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An Uncertain Place

An Uncertain Place

Author(s): Fred Vargas

Location(s): France, London, Serbia

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Modern

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This is the sixth novel featuring Commissaire Adamsberg that has been translated into English. It starts in London, at Highgate Cemetery where Adamsberg,along with two colleagues, is attending a conference.They chance upon a pile of shoes with severed feet in them.Back in France,there is a murder of a writer. Finally the investigation takes them to Serbia.

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`Frederique Vargas is an archaeologist and historian whose imaginative characters put most of America’s top-rated crime writers to shame’ –The Observer

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