An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas, Harvill/Secker, $32.95.
Commissaire Adamsberg, chief of Paris’ Serious Crimes Squad, will live to rue the day he discovers 17 severed feet outside London’s Highgate Cemetery.
Like all good fictional detectives, he’s a bit of a loner, quietly rebellious and loved by all his (mostly) loyal officers.
The feet will lead him into all sorts of trouble, political, personal, even possibly supernatural.
Crime fiction lovers will adore this wonderfully French mystery, in which officers drink vin ordinaire, eat baguettes and hunt a killer who’s on a mission of annihilation.
An Uncertain Place and its dead feet walk a fine line between what’s believable and what’s possible — could there be a link to a family condemned through the ages as vampires?
You’ll be terrified, mystified, bemused and amused, and it won’t be long before you’ll be yearning for a glass of red and some crusty bread with paté.
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