![]() ‘The Ghost Riders of Ordebec’ by Fred Vargas And now there are amazing people in the field you couldn’t find before.” There was an extraordinary crime writing tradition in the ‘70s which disappeared. She added: “Something is really happening in France. The whole Scandinavian wave is waning and this could well be filled by the amazing French writers out there. Helene Fiamma, head of the book department at the French Institute said the CWA prize “will probably trigger something,” before adding: “As well as the prize, there is a hunger for great crime fiction. ![]() ![]() “French crime fiction often intends to uncover a view of the past more overtly political than ours.” “The French have always been strong but this enables us to get a glimpse at what’s going on across the channel,” she said. ![]()
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