Utterly loveable...Ghote is one of the great creations of detective fiction

Frederique Vargas['s]...imaginative characters put most of America's top-rated crime writers to shame

Wonderfully intricate and gothic

An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion

As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read

This is crime fiction writing at its most intriguing

Only one's dreams after a champagne-fuelled night at the Follies Bergere have quite the same nightmarish-but-entertaining quality as Vargas's delightful crime novels

Gripping

[Vargas is] one of the most exciting, addictive and inventive purveyor of classy crime fiction currently pounding the publishing beat... It it a highly entertaining policier but more importantly, as with Conan Doyle, the wacky world Vargas shapes is oddly reassuring: a great remedy to a grey day

A thrilling read