Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where you can share the first paragraph, or a few, of a book you are reading or thinking about reading soon.
My book this week is a library book that I’m thinking about reading soon. It’s The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas, translated from the French by Sian Reynolds.
It begins:
A trail of tiny crumbs led from the kitchen into the bedroom, as far as the spotless sheets where the old woman lay dead, her mouth open. Commissaire Adamsberg looked down at the crumbs in silence, pacing to and fro, wondering what kind of Tom Thumb – or what ogre in this case – might have dropped them there. He was in a small, dark, ground-floor apartment, with just three rooms, in the eighteenth arrondissement, in northern Paris.
Blurb:
‘˜People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters.
She 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 grisly end following a visitation by the riders.
Soon after the young woman’s vision a notoriously vicious and cruel man disappears. 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.
What do you think? Would you keep on reading?
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Oh yes, that drew me in. I would want to know more. Enjoy
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Oh, sounds intriguing! I like when I find out about translated books because they are always new to me and open up doors to more reading material. Enjoy it!
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I don’t read a lot of crime fiction, but people keep telling me Fred Vargas is wonderful, and the excerpt has aroused my curiosity, so maybe I’ll give this one a go.
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Yes, I would want to know what happened to the old lady. The sheets are spotless. How does she die? The clean sheets seem to point to someone caring about her welfare?
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That opening worked for me! I want to keep reading, great choice. Here is my Tuesday post https://cleopatralovesbooks.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/first-chapter-first-paragraph-april-28/
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I’ve heard good things about Fred Vargas’ books. And that opening is great. Yes, I’d keep reading.
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I want to know more after reading that first paragraph. I’d keep reading.
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sounds good.
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Oh, Margaret, I liked this one very much when I read it! I know that everyone has different tastes and all that, but I do recommend this one. I hope you’ll enjoy it if you read it.
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