The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
A # 1 French and Italian bestseller from the three-time winner of the CWA’s International Dagger Award More than ten million copies of Fred Vargas’s Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries have been sold worldwide. Now, American readers are getting hooked on the internationally bestselling author’s...
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A # 1 French and Italian bestseller from the three-time winner of the CWA’s International Dagger Award More than ten million copies of Fred Vargas’s Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries have been sold worldwide. Now, American readers are getting hooked on the internationally bestselling author’s unsettling blend of crime and the supernatural. As the chief of police in Paris’s seventh arrondissement, Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec. Yet, he cannot ignore a widow’s plea. Her daughter Lina has seen a vision of the Ghost Riders with four nefarious men. According to the thousand-year-old legend, the vision means that the men will soon die a grisly death. When one of them disappears, Adamsberg races to Ordebec, where he becomes entranced by the gorgeous Lina—and embroiled in the small Normandy town’s ancient feud.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143123125 (0143123122)
Publish date: June 25th 2013
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Roman,
France,
French Literature,
Italian Literature
Series: Commissaire Adamsberg (#9)
A young miscreant is setup for a fall by powerful men, a pigeon needs rescuing and the great hunt appears to claim evil men in the Normandie. Commissaire Adamsberg, his son and his team of special characters have a lot on their plate in this latest installment of the series. I very much enjoy the ca...
A female author named Fred and a French protagonist named Adamsberg. These are your first clues that this series is a little off plumb, but more fly at you quickly in these books, and the seventh in the series, The Ghost Riders of Ordebec, is no different. We begin with Commissaire Adamsberg of the ...
Vintage Vargas. You kinda need to have read the previous book to fully get where Adamsberg is coming from and why he is in just a strange head space (more that usual for him). The plot hinges on the supernatural again. It's well done and the whole small village with history going back to the middle ...