An Uncertain Place

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.

A Climate of Fear, the latest Commissaire Adamsberg mystery, will soon be available from Penguin.