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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“Commissaire Adamsberg is a quirky Parisian
chief of police with a team of dedicated colleagues, each with unique skills
and idiosyncrasies. In this seventh series entry…the commissaire employs
unorthodox methods to ensure that truth, not politics, prevails. Making new
acquaintances in town, including the Comte d’Ordebec, Adamsberg relies upon
these new allies as well as his own team to settle matters far more complex
than initially presented. Verdict: Although this novel can stand alone, readers
might appreciate gaining insight and growing attached to the characters if they
become part of the team from the start…Vargas is a three-time CWA International
Dagger Award winner and her tale of this quirky-but-qualified band of misfits
makes for a page-turning summer read.”
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Library Journal (starred review)