This is the sixth novel featuring Commissaire Adamsberg to be
translated into English,and is as distinctive and idiosyncratic
as the others.
It begins in London where Adamsberg,along with two colleagues,
are at a conference.Whilst there they chance upon,at Highgate
Cementry,a pile of shoes with severed feet in them.Back in France,
Adamsberg and his colleagues,each of whom has their own eccentricity,
are soon dealing with a murder of a renowned legal writer ,whose
body has been made into small pieces.This investigation leads to
vampires and a visit to Serbia by Adamsberg before its denouement.
Whilst the plot maybe somewhat fanciful,the novel ,peopled by
fascinating characters, is always fully engaging.