The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Novel

Author: Fred Vargas

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  • : November 2012
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

'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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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

Awards

Winner (joint) of the CWA International Dagger 2013


other winner  Pierre Lemaitre with Alex

Author description

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