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An Uncertain Place (Commissaire Adamsberg) [Kindle Edition]

Fred Vargas (Author), Sian Reynolds (Translator)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic. (Marcel Berlins The Times )

Wonderfully intricate and Gothic (Independent )

This is the seventh outing for Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, Fred Vargas's thoughtful, laid-back police chief, and the series shows no signs of flagging; An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion. (Annabella Bankhouse Times Literary Supplement )

With its idiosyncratic detective and taut plot, this is crime fiction writing at its most intriguing. (Marie Claire )

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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Adamsberg travels to London, where a routine conference draws him into a disturbing investigation.
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 898 KB
  • Print Length: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Digital (7 April 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004SOYWKS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #10,913 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds have done it again 11 May 2011
By I Readalot TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
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.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fred Vargas--An Uncertain Place 12 April 2011
By Simon Clarke TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bliss 6 May 2011
By P. G. Strachan VINE™ VOICE
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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2.0 out of 5 stars Not For Me
I think this writer is just not for me. That isn't to say she's not a good writer, I'm sure she is, but from the start I wasn't drawn into the book and I never felt that I was... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Mrs. J. A. Thompson
3.0 out of 5 stars Victorian crime novel?
What an old fashioned tale. If it were not for the use of mobile 'phones you could believe that the early scenes were taking place in Victorian London. Read more
Published 15 days ago by J A GERMAN
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
If you want something different in a detective novel. well this is for you. Just go with flow surrounding the supernatural element and enjoy good characters, quirky writing and... Read more
Published 22 days ago by Mr P Hearn
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
An engaging story that I finished all too quickly. I had read a few Vargas books awhile ago and this was a great workto return to her.
Published 1 month ago by Oygen
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but too clever for its own good
Adamsberg is an interesting character but sometimes it felt that the plotting was more to demonstrate the author's cleverness than was needed.
Published 1 month ago by carolyn penrose
2.0 out of 5 stars The publisher is guilty
Having paid a bookshop Au$32.95 for this, I feel justified in warning other potential readers: ignore the promotional blurbs. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cathy
4.0 out of 5 stars An Uncertain Place
Complicated story with many names to remember, nevertheless, we'll written and a good read. I would recommend It to readers
Published 1 month ago by Sam
3.0 out of 5 stars It was just ok
I read the first half of the book but in the end did not finish it because it was getting more and more ridiculous for a detective story and started messing about with a story line... Read more
Published 2 months ago by James
4.0 out of 5 stars VARGAS certainly makes you think.
Started well then there abit of dip - still very readable - and then it picked up the momentum again about a quarter of the way through. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Bigdee
4.0 out of 5 stars They do things better in France.
An excellent translation of a charming detective story with a completely bonkers plot. Gritty realism itis not but very entertaining and will make you want to be French.
Published 4 months ago by Anne
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