title: An Uncertain Place
text: # An Uncertain Place
  
  An Uncertain Place (French: Un lieu incertain) is a 2008 crime novel by the French writer Fred Vargas.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Christian House of The Independent wrote: "It is 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."
  
  