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As is often the case with Fred Vargas and her Commissioner Adamsberg cases, strange things happen, sometimes an almost supernatural side tapping into dark myths, but always something bizarre, something never encountered before. It's only Adamsberg for example who would have strangeness follow him across the English channel at the start of Un lieu incertain , attending a conference in London on the Flow of Migration, and be greeted with the sight of 17 shoes arranged facing the gates of Highgate Cemetery, each of them still containing the severed feet of their owners. Despite being very obviously an Adamsberg kind of problem, he tries to keep away from this one, finding himself occupied with another extreme case of his own back home. Pierre Vaudel, a retired journalist, 78, independently wealthy, has been found dead in his home. Or not so much found as obliterated, someone taking great care to cut up and hammer the pieces of his body into small fragments that are scattered across hi...