The Ghost Riders of Ordebec

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 *Vargas depicts brilliantly a rural community riven with superstition, where class distinctions have existed for centuries * The Times *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 *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 * Independent on Sunday *A celebration of love and camaraderie among the unlikeliest allies * Metro *

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.

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