The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery) - Softcover

Vargas, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099569558 ISBN 13: 9780099569558

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2014

Synopsis

France's bestselling crime writer, and three-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.
    
 '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.

About this title

About the Author:

FRED VARGAS was born in Paris in 1957. As well as being a best-selling author in France, she is an historian and archaeologist.

Review:

· "An early contender for outstanding crime novel of the year." --Sunday Times

· "A glorious mix of myth, quirky observation and gallic humour." --Sunday Telegraph

· "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

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0099569558
• ISBN 13: 9780099569558
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432