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'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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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec - A Commissaire Adamsberg Novel, Fred Vargas
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- Released
- 2013
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fred Vargas
- Publisher
- Random House LCC US
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1846555868
- ISBN13
- 9781846555862
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, France, Murders, Detective Fiction, Folklore & Mythology, Detective, French Literature, Paris, Heritage, Hunts, Normandy
- First published
- 2010
- Original title
- Ľarmée furieuse
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- 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.