Death in the Dordogne: Bruno, Chief of Police 1

Walker, Martin

£9.99

When an old man, head of an immigrant North African family, is found murdered, suspicion falls on the son of a St Denis doctor, found in flagrante playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia. But chief of police, Captain Bruno Courreges, isn’t convinced and instead suspects this crime may have its roots in that most tortured period of recent French history – the Second World War, a time of terror and betrayal that set brother against brother.

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Publish Date: 14/01/2016
ISBN: 9781784299408 Category: Tag:

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‘HUGELY ENJOYABLE AND ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING. BRUNO … THE MAIGRET OF THE DORDOGNE’ – Antony Beevor

The first Dordogne Mystery starring Bruno, Chief of Police, France’s favourite cop. EU inspectors are causing havoc in the little town of St Denis and local tempers are running high, but is it really cause for murder?

Market day in the ancient town of St Denis in south-west France. EU hygiene inspectors have been swooping on France’s markets, while the locals hide contraband cheese in their houses and call the Brussels bureaucrats ‘Gestapo’. Local police chief Bruno supports their resistance. Although, here in what was once Vichy France, words like ‘Gestapo’ and ‘resistance’ still carry a profound resonance.

When an old man, head of an immigrant North African family, is found murdered, suspicion falls on the son of the local doctor, found in flagrante playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia.

But Bruno isn’t convinced, and suspects this crime may have its roots in that most tortured period of recent French history – the Second World War, a time of terror and betrayal that set brother against brother. Now it’s up to him to find the killer – but will the people of St Denis allow him to go digging through the past in order to do it?

Additional information

Weight 248 g
Dimensions 196 × 128 × 26 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

x, 342

Language

English

Edition

|Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K