This is an auction for AN UNCERTAIN PLACE by Fred Vargas.

"One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic."

• The Times

"An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion."

• Times Literary Supplement

"As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read."

• Sunday Times -(UK)

Amazon.com review:

"From the #1 bestselling French author and three-time winner of the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award. When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of London's Highgate Cemetery just a few days earlier. With the help of the murdered man's gifted physician, Adamsberg delves into the victim's disturbed psyche and unexpectedly finds himself on a path that takes him deep into the haunted past of Eastern Europe, where a centuries-old horror has come to life and is claiming victims far and wide."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Paperback 2012.

408 pages.

Near new condition.

The cost of shipping is $3.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.