- Published: 1 April 2014
- ISBN: 9780099569558
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $29.99
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
A Commissaire Adamsberg novel
- Published: 1 April 2014
- ISBN: 9780099569558
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $29.99
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
This latest outing for the offbeat Commissaire Adamsberg is [Vargas'] best
Independent
An early contender for outstanding crime novel of the year
Sunday Times
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
A celebration of love and camaraderie among the unlikeliest allies
Metro
Vargas depicts brilliantly a rural community riven with superstition, where class distinctions have existed for centuries
The Times
A glorious mix of myth, quirky observation and gallic humour
Sunday 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