An Uncertain Place. Der verbotene Ort, englische Ausgabe (Penguin USA)

When Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Pariss seventh arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it cant have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of Londons Highgate Cemetery just a few days earlier. Adamsberg delves into the victims 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.