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Der verbotene Ort
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Der verbotene Ort

Written by Fred Vargas

Narrated by Volker Risch

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Kommissar Adamsberg macht in London einen grausamen Fund: Vor dem berüchtigten Friedhof Highgate stehen neun Paar ordentlich aufgereihte Schuhe - mitsamt den dazugehörigen Füßen. Auch in Paris beschäftigt ihn ein mysteriöser Fall. Ein alter Mann wurde auf bestialische Weise ermordet. Die einzige Spur führt nach Transsilvanien, wo die Sage um den berüchtigten Vampir Plogojowitz noch gefährlich lebendig ist. Dort liegt seit Jahrhunderten ein Geheimnis begraben, das die Bewohner des kleinen serbischen Dorfes noch immer in Angst und Schrecken versetzt. Ein packendes WDR-Hörspiel mit Volker Risch als Kommissar Adamsberg!
LanguageDeutsch
Release dateOct 12, 2015
ISBN9783898138789
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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I have read a great many positive reviews of Fred Vargas' books and I looked forward to reading one of them. There is good style to the writing as translated by Sian Reynolds, but the plot of this one is dreadful. One reviewer said that he struggled to page 300 or so, and then gave up. I know exactly how he felt; it's just that I never give up on a book. Once Adamsburg goes to Serbia, the book just slips out of control and never recovers.
    I will think about giving Vargas a second chance, if I perceive that another book will stay within the realm of plausibility; the borders of which were well crossed by this one.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    After the Ordabec book, this proved to be very disappointing.An insane and unbelievable plot, involving vampires and nice Serbian peasants as well as Adamsberg's family, this was a waste of time.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great to read again, sian reynolds translation is beautifully done.
    lovely and quirky and wierd with lots of random facts.
    plog! also bonhomie :D
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I love idiosyncratic characters, and this book abounds with them.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As Chief of the Serious Crimes Squad in Paris, Commissaire Adamsberg is obliged to attend the 3 day conference in London about controlling migratory flows in Europe. As he doesn't speak English, he is rather hoping to be able to tune out of most of the discussion. He knows his deputy Commandant Danglard, who has an excellent grasp of English, will tell him the most important bits anyway.Danglard makes several friends at the conference and through one of them, DCI Radstock of New Scotland Yard, he and Adamsberg are treated to the amazing sight of a collection of pairs of shoes (containing feet) at the entrance to Highgate Cemetery. Some of the shoes are ancient, while others more modern, and to his dismay Danglard thinks he recognises one of the pairs. It certainly seems as if most of the shoes may be of European origin.When Adamsberg and his team return to Paris they are confronted with the very grisly case in which a body has been "chopped up, pulverised, scattered. Wherever you look, you see parts of it, and when you see it all, you can't see any of it. There's nothing but the body, but the body isn't there. ...This old man wasn't just killed, he was reduced to nothingness. He didn't have his life taken, he was literally demolished, wiped out."Adamsberg's team's hunt for the killer sends them looking for relatives of the victim, to trying to understand why the victim did not leave his estate to his own son but to his part-time gardener, and then by chance, to the discovery that a distant relative has been killed in a similar fashion. Adamsberg himself eventually ends up in Serbia, in a village, where nearly 3 centuries before, at least two families were thought to be vampires. And there too he unearths the connection with Highgate Cemetery.But there is something else going on too. Someone in high places is calling in favours, and a member of his own team is subverted in an attempt to have Adamsberg discredited and dismissed, and his investigation cancelled. So Adamsberg know he is getting too close to the truth. But which truth and just who is it that is pulling the strings?One of the tricks in a Vargas novel is to work out what is the really important information and to retain that so that eventually your brain will make the connections. I wondered several times where AN UNCERTAIN PLACE was headed, and whether either I or Vargas had "lost the plot".As Norman says on Crime Scraps this novel is designed to be read slowly because you won't want it to end; the literary equivalent of slow cooking, or sipping a fine whisky or wine. A tasty French bouillabaisse of a novel to be enjoyed and savoured by gourmets of crime fiction.Not everybody will enjoy AN UNCERTAIN PLACE. I did find myself wondering what had been the trigger for Vargas in writing this novel.For some Adamsberg and his team will be just too peculiar, the idea that events in London, Paris and Serbia could be connected will be just too much of a stretch, and the murders themselves will be just too grisly.But for me, in the end, Vargas pulled it off. It is a novel that just can't be finished and put aside. The reader needs to reflect to see how finely Vargas connected the threads.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    17 shoes with cut off decomposed feet in them are found at the entrance to the Highgate Cemetery in London, a man is chopped up into little pieces and flung all over the room, a Serbian village lives in fear of a master vampire.... and someone is out to finger Inspector Adamsberg for a crime.The dead man was not a random victim but finding the reasons why anyone would want to brutally murder him pits Adamsberg up against a very clever and determined killer, one with a very strong opinion of families and family lines. Adamsberg's challenges this time include a member of his team who behaves increasingly oddly, a pregnant cat, a vault of vampires, an old enemy and a shocking surprise.This series just keeps getting better and better, and Vargas's skill in keeping the identity of the murderer until the very end while keeping the tension taut borders on sheer genius.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Fred Vargas is just excellent! I always finish her books wishing that I didn't have to leave Paris and Commissaire Adamsberg so soon.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Number 8 in this series focuses on Commissaire Adamsberg. Not just his intuitive, dreamy, quirky nature, but a part of his life that he had lost--in truth he hardly ever had it. Adamsberg is not good at noticing his own life. The part resurfaces and brings a bundle of confusion (Confusion is the norm in an Adamsberg investigation). The old gang is here too: Neighbor Lucio peeing on the tree in the garden, his detectives overeating, oversleeping, overdrinking, his boss still trying to dump him, and a village in Serbia overflowing with bloodsucking secrets. Some gore but done elegantly. Good writing. Two late nights of reading.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    As chief of the Serious Crimes Squad in Paris Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is sent to London to attend a conference designed to foster relations for police forces across Europe. He's taking Danglard with him to help translate. While being shown some of the sights by an English colleague they are pointed in the direction of a peculiar incident. Some shoes have been left outside of Highgate Cemetery and the disturbing part of the discovery is that there are feet still in them. So Adamsberg becomes acquainted with the tale of the Highgate vampire and when a particularly brutal murder occurs back in Paris where the body has suffered extreme destruction could there be a connection? There may be risks both personally and professionally in pursuing this case but when has that ever stopped Adamsberg or his team of eccentrics?All the hallmarks that make this series stand out for me are included in this instalment. The quirky characters with Adamsberg being at the fore once again and the trips to different locations (a fish out of water in London but much more comfortable in small village life in Serbia) help to keep the narrative fresh. The mystery itself is never too important with these stories for me as I do enjoy just spending time with the marvellous characters that Vargas has brought to life with the help of another excellent translation from Sian Reynolds. While it's not too difficult to point an accusatory finger at a would-be culprit the journey up to the final denouement is still an enjoyable one. Glad to know I've still not reached the end of this series and I still have more adventures with the Commissaire and his crew to look forward to.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is number 6 in the Parisian Commissaire/Chief Inspector Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg police procedural mysteries, but it's actually the first I've read. While the Commissaire is attending a meeting in London, he and an English policeman discover eight and a half pairs of shoes with severed feet in them. Bizarrely, they are lined up as if wanting to enter the ancient and eerie, much-storied Highgate Cemetery.After returning to Paris, the Commissaire is called to the site of an incredibly violent murder. The victim was not only dismembered but entirely severed into very small pieces.The two macabre events converge and part of the answer seems to lie in Serbia at the grave of a ‘centuries old horror’ (quote from back cover) of a still feared vampire. Lots of nicely written twists and turns kept me guessing; the bit of supernatural horror was just enough to make it interesting, but not necessarily push it into another genre of mystery. It’s a series that I will continue.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love the Chief Inspector Adamsberg series. This book was the best I have read from this series so far.Adamsberg has to investigate a brutal murder case. The corpse is dismembered as if it had passed through a chopper several times. Who could the killer be? Even if the murder appears brutal, all of the side scenes are often a smile. Adamsberg more than lives up to his character as a dreamer and sensitive person. He also gets an unexpected addition to the family and his heart for animals also comes into play.A great book that I highly recommend.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Zum Inhalt:Diesmal haben Kommissar Adamsberg und seine Truppe einen besonders grausigen Mord aufzuklären, wobei das Vorgehen des Täters auf den ersten Blick keinen Sinn ergibt. Seine Ermittlungen führen Adamsberg schliesslich auf die Spur osteuropäischer Vampire, und dann wird es für ihn richtig ungemütlich. Eindruck: Ein toller Kriminalroman, der einerseits durch die sympathischen, oft leicht beknackten Charaktere und zum anderen durch das brillante Spiel mit (erdachter) Realität und Mythos besticht. Besonders reizvoll ist, dass sogar die "brigade criminelle", deren Chef Adamsberg ist, in der Frage übernatürlicher Phänomene gespalten ist. Während die einen grundsätzlich dafür offen sind, können die anderen überhaupt nichts damit anfangen. Gewiss, einige Verbindungen zwischen Personen wirken etwas konstruiert, doch das hat mich nicht gross gestört. Fazit: Selbst bei dem heutzutage etwas ausgetretenen Thema "Vampire" läuft man bei Fred Vargas nie Gefahr, sich zu langweilen.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this instalment in the series and how Vargas mixed ‘fact’ – the Highgate Vampire story is based on real reports of supernatural activity in and around Highgate Cemetery in the 1970s – and fiction. I also loved how the seemingly random elements of the plot, the shoes and the decomposing feet found at Highgate, the murder and complete disintegration of the victim’s body, and the Serbian village, all came together at the end. Fabulous.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the first Fred Vargas I've tried, and I liked it: fiction is full of eccentric detectives, but Adamsberg manages to have some entertainingly different eccentricities from the rest, and the plot wasn't too predictable. I loved the old-fashioned way the final identification of the murderer was based on a logical (but well-hidden) Clue that we could have worked out for ourselves if we'd noticed it in time. Not something you often see these days.