The Vampire of Ropraz
ISBN-13: 9781904738336
Contributor(s): Jacques Chessex
Subject: Crime & Mystery
Publisher Imprint: Bitter Lemon Press
Publication Date: 16-10-2008
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£6.99
About the book
1903, Ropraz - a small village in the Jura Mountains. The virginal daughter of a local judge dies of meningitis and on a howling December day a lone walker discovers her tomb recently opened. Her body is violated, her left hand cut off, sex mutilated and heart torn out. Horror in the nearby village brings the return of atavistic superstitions, along with mutual suspicion. Garlic and crucifixes are again brandished in the Protestant region - and after two more bodies are violated a suspect must be found.