The Ghost Riders of Ordebec - Softcover

Vargas, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846555868 ISBN 13: 9781846555862

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2013

Synopsis

Commissaire Adamsberg takes on a case far outside of his jurisdiction: the disappearances of evil-doers who have been visited by 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: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846555868
• ISBN 13: 9781846555862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368