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`one of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic' --The Times
`Frederique Vargas is an archaeologist and historian whose imaginative characters put most of America's top-rated crime writers to shame' --The Observer
`[Vargas is] one of the most exciting, addictive and inventive purveyor of classy crime fiction currently pounding the publishing beat... It it a highly entertaining policier but more importantly, as with Conan Doyle, the wacky world Vargas shapes is oddly reassuring: a great remedy to a grey day.'
--Independent on Sunday, Christian House
`An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion'
--TLS, Annabella Bankhouse
`gripping' --Guardian
`As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read.' --Sunday Times, Joan Smith
`This is crime fiction writing at its most intriguing.' --Marie Claire, Eithne Farry
'Only one's dreams after a champagne-fuelled night at the Follies Bergere have quite the same nightmarish-but-entertaining quality as Vargas's delightful crime novels.'
--Telegraph, Jake Kerridge
`Wonderfully intricate and gothic' --Independent
`a thrilling read.'
--The Sunday Times
`Frederique Vargas is an archaeologist and historian whose imaginative characters put most of America's top-rated crime writers to shame' --The Observer
`[Vargas is] one of the most exciting, addictive and inventive purveyor of classy crime fiction currently pounding the publishing beat... It it a highly entertaining policier but more importantly, as with Conan Doyle, the wacky world Vargas shapes is oddly reassuring: a great remedy to a grey day.'
--Independent on Sunday, Christian House
`An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion'
--TLS, Annabella Bankhouse
`gripping' --Guardian
`As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read.' --Sunday Times, Joan Smith
`This is crime fiction writing at its most intriguing.' --Marie Claire, Eithne Farry
'Only one's dreams after a champagne-fuelled night at the Follies Bergere have quite the same nightmarish-but-entertaining quality as Vargas's delightful crime novels.'
--Telegraph, Jake Kerridge
`Wonderfully intricate and gothic' --Independent
`a thrilling read.'
--The Sunday Times
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"One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic."
--Marcel Berlins, "The Times"
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"An Uncertain Place""is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion."
--Annabella Bankhouse, "Times Literary Supplement"
"As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read."
--Joan Smith, "Sunday Times"
--Marcel Berlins, "The Times"
" "
"An Uncertain Place""is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion."
--Annabella Bankhouse, "Times Literary Supplement"
"As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read."
--Joan Smith, "Sunday Times"
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Enjoy crime fiction? Feel like a complete change from the atmospheric and dark Nordic writers? Then this is for you. With An Uncertain Place the team of Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds have produced another winner. Could they become 4 Time Winner of The CWA Intenational Dagger? With her trademark humour Vargas takes us from a row of shoes outside Highgate Cemetry complete with feet; through a massacre in a suburban home in Paris and onto a small Serbian Village and its myths and legends of Vampires. Someone is out to get Adamsberg and he has only a few days to solve the crime and save his reputation. Veyrenc makes a welcome and timely return and Adamsberg discovers something about himself.
Fred Vargas uses her vast knowledge of history and archeology and mixes it with crime and an odd quirky humour, her books are impossible to put down and quite addictive. Don't just read this one, read all of her books, you won't regret it. Finally, after reading it you could find yourself using the word 'Plog', and if you hear anyone else using it, then you will know they have read An Uncertain Place.
Fred Vargas uses her vast knowledge of history and archeology and mixes it with crime and an odd quirky humour, her books are impossible to put down and quite addictive. Don't just read this one, read all of her books, you won't regret it. Finally, after reading it you could find yourself using the word 'Plog', and if you hear anyone else using it, then you will know they have read An Uncertain Place.
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just fabulous. There are books you enjoy and race to the end and there are those that you find yourself rationing the last chapters/pages/paragraphs/words...because you really don't want to let them go. You'll see the plot outlined elsewhere....it's good fun and suitably far-fetched...but with Vargas it's the characters that you fall in love with. So stop faffing around and invest in every last word she's ever written....you'll enjoy each and every syllable.
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An abstracted Adamsberg at his most vulnerable but also his finest.
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Published 10 months ago by lovemurakami
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