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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel

The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel

by Fred Vargas (Author)

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    Hardcover 2013

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Synopsis

Joint-Winner of the CWA International Dagger. 'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and 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 grizzly end following a visitation by the riders. Soon after the young woman's vision a notoriously cruel man disappears, and the local police dismiss the matter as superstition. 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: Hardcover
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 07 Mar 2013
ISBN 10: 1846557364
ISBN 13: 9781846557361
Book Overview: France's bestselling crime writer, and four-time winner of the CWA International Dagger, sends the unorthodox 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 Her novels about the kindly, quixotic Commissaire Adamsberg are unique, presenting us with a France that resembles Simenon's in its concreteness but with a fantastical, even surreal, twist: werewolves, vampires and, in her latest novel, an army of ghosts on horseback... Her work is like a baked Camembert among the smorgasbord of chilly Scandinavian realism that dominates the foreign crime fiction market here, delicious comfort food for the sophisticated palate. -- Jake Kerridge Daily Telegraph Adamsberg is as delightful, absurd and irritating as ever. One of Vargas's best -- Marcel Berlins Times There are, it seems, two types of people: those who have discovered the quirky bliss of Fred Vargas's novels and those who don't know a good thing when they see it on the shelf...For those who haven't picked Vargas off the shelf, I highly recommend sitting on a wall with Adamsberg this spring -- Christian House Independent on Sunday
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.