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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel (Commissaire Adamsberg, 7)

The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel (Commissaire Adamsberg, 7)

by Fred Vargas (Author), Fred Vargas (Author), Siân Reynolds (Translator)

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Synopsis

`People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, rapists, those with serious crimes on their conscience, meeting a grisly end following a visitation by the riders. Soon after the young woman's vision a notoriously vicious and cruel man disappears. Although the case is far outside his jurisdiction, Adamsberg agrees to investigate the strange happenings in a village terrorised by wild rumours and ancient feuds.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 27 Feb 2014
ISBN 10: 0099569558
ISBN 13: 9780099569558
Book Overview: France's bestselling crime writer, and three-time winner of the CWA International Dagger, sends the quirky and original Commissaire Adamsberg far outside his jurisdication in a chilling tale of evil-doers who disappear after visitations from a band of ghostly horsemen

Media Reviews
This latest outing for the offbeat Commissaire Adamsberg is [Vargas'] best * Independent *
After decades in which crime fiction in French was dominated by the Belgian author Georges Simenon, it has an indisputable new star in Fred Vargas -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times *
Vargas depicts brilliantly a rural community riven with superstition, where class distinctions have existed for centuries * The Times *
An early contender for outstanding crime novel of the year * Sunday Times *
A glorious mix of myth, quirky observation and gallic humour * Sunday Telegraph *
Author Bio
Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.