An Uncertain Place

An Uncertain Place is the 8th book in the Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery series by Fred Vargas. Back in the olden days when I could spend hours browsing used book store shelves I came across a couple of these books and have enjoyed them. The team he works with is not what I'm used to, and it's always fun to find a detective who surprises.

from the back of the book:

When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastley 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 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. This is an investigation unlike any that Adamsberg has undertaken before - and one that someone on the inside is ready to stop at any cost.

I've also read: #7 This Night's Foul Work