{"product_id":"an-uncertain-place-isbn-9780143120049","title":"An Uncertain Place","description":"\u003cb\u003e \"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers.\"—Martin Walker, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A wildly imaginative series.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the #1 bestselling French author and four-time winner of  the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e“Vargas writes with the startling imagery and absurdist wit of a latter-day Anouilh, about fey characters who live in a wonderful bohemian world that never was but should have been.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Spry, ironic, yet fully engaged with the horror of contemporary reality” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“It's a full, rich and strange plate.” —\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[A] high degree of intelligence, sophistication and perversity informs [Vargas’] fiction…I continue to be delighted by the workings of [her] imagination. It’s a tangled web she weaves, and a hard one to escape.”—Patrick Anderson, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Few crime stories are as apt to leave a reader wondering so ardently: Who dunnit?...Vargas’ characters are like something out of a fairy tale – eternal opposites, ever-renewing archetypes despite their fresh adventures each time. That’s why each novel’s opening feels new.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Anyone who enjoys kooky characters and intricate detail will happily follow Vargas along.” —\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“As droll and fascinating as \u003ci\u003ela ville lumière\u003c\/i\u003e itself.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Adamsberg, always an intuitive sleuth rather than a rational one, is the perfect hero for a series where reality is always a moving target.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFred Vargas\u003c\/b\u003e, historian and archaeologist, is a number-one bestselling author in France, Germany and Italy. She is the author of eight novels featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, and has won the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award three out of the last five years.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44864074088677,"sku":"NP9780143120049","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143120049.jpg?v=1767721526","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/an-uncertain-place-isbn-9780143120049","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}