Commissaire Adamsberg, together with Danglard and Estalere, attends a conference in London
when seventeen feet in shoes are found at the gates of Highgate Cemetery. Returning to Paris,
the three are immediately involved in the violent killing of a rich old man whose body has been
completely dismembered. The man's gardener is a suspect as he is the prime beneficiary but
Adamsberg hides him away as he believes him innocent. Similar deaths have occured in
Germany with the link being that of distant relationship to a Serbian forebear. Adamsberg
goes to the ancestral village where he narrowly escapes death. His career is at risk as one of
those involved is a senior magistrate who has the power to get him dismissed but he does have
the help of others. The plot is very complicated but it does eventually make sense with the
perpetrator finally being unmasked, again with some risk to Adamsberg. Well up to this
excellent writer's standard.
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