The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel - Rilegato

Vargas, Fred

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ISBN 10: 1846557364 ISBN 13: 9781846557361

Casa editrice: Harvill Secker, 2013

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

"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)

Descrizione del libro:

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

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• Editore: Harvill Secker
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846557364
• ISBN 13: 9781846557361
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 368