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France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to
the town he polices and the people he protects. Loved by millions,
the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect mix of mystery and escapism.
The event of the PĂ©rigord tourist season is the re-enactment of
the liberation of the historic town of Sarlat from the English in
1370. But it all goes wrong when the man playing the part of the
victorious French general collapses in a pool of blood. The
question for chief of police Bruno is was this an accident - or
deliberate? The stakes rise when Bruno learns that the man,
Kerquelin, was running Frenchelon, the secret French electronic
intelligence base nearby, after being recruited from a brilliant
Silicon Valley career. As he investigates, Bruno discovers that
Kerquelin's wound was faked, that he is alive and well and secretly
negotiating a massive deal to build a semi-conductor industry in
France. But then a whole new and dangerous player emerges,
determined to nip the deal in the bud.
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Capturing the magic of the Dordogne and its people, the Dordogne
Mysteries are worldwide bestsellers. Featuring Bruno, France's
favourite policeman, along with gourmet food and wine, local
colour, sunshine and murder mystery, no wonder they are so popular.
'RICH ON LOCAL COLOUR' THE TIMES 'DOLLOPS OF THE GOOD LIFE IN RURAL
FRANCE SPICED UP WITH INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'UNRIVALED AT INTERWEAVING THE PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE PURSUITS OF
A THOROUGH LIKABLE COP' DAILY MAIL Bruno Courreges is Chief of
Police of the lovely town of St Denis in the Dordogne. His main
wish is to keep the local people safe and his town free from crime.
But crime has a way of finding its way to him. For thirty years,
Bruno's boss, Chief of Detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, has been
obsessed with his first case. It was never solved and Bruno knows
that this failure continues to haunt J-J. A young male body was
found in the woods near St Denis and never identified. For all
these years, J-J has kept the skull as a reminder. He calls him
'Oscar'. Visiting the famous pre-history museum in nearby Les
Eyzies, Bruno sees some amazingly life-like heads expertly
reconstructed from ancient skulls. He suggests performing a similar
reconstruction on Oscar as a first step towards at last identifying
him. An expert is hired to start the reconstruction and the search
for Oscar's killer begins again in earnest.
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Join Bruno, France's favourite country cop, on his latest adventure
as he fights to keep St Denis safe. Set in the beautiful PĂ©rigord
region, The Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of
mystery and escapism. It is summer in St Denis and Bruno is busy
organising the annual village concert. He's hired a local PĂ©rigord
folk group, Les Troubadours, to perform their latest hit 'A Song
for Catalonia'. But when the song unexpectedly goes viral, the
Spanish government, clamping down on the Catalonian bid for
independence, bans Les Troubadours from performing it. The timing
couldn't be worse, and Bruno finds himself under yet more pressure
when a specialist sniper's bullet is found in a wrecked car near
Bergerac. The car was reportedly stolen on the Spanish frontier and
the Spanish government sends warning that a group of nationalist
extremists may be planning an assassination in France. Bruno
immediately suspects that Les Troubadours and their audience might
be in danger. Bruno must organise security and ensure that his
beloved town and its people are safe - the stakes are high for
France's favourite policeman.
France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to
the town he polices and the people he protects. Loved by millions,
the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of mystery and
escapism. The event of the PĂ©rigord tourist season is to be the
re-enactment of the liberation of the historic town of Sarlat from
the English in 1370. But it all goes wrong when the man playing the
part of the French general is almost killed in the heat of the
action. The immediate question for chief of police Bruno Courrèges
is was this an accident - or deliberate? The stakes rise when Bruno
learns that the man, Kerquelin, was running Frenchelon, the secret
French electronic intelligence base nearby, after being recruited
from a brilliant Silicon Valley career. His old Silicon Valley
colleagues have been invited to stay at the luxurious local chateau
of Rouffillac as his guests to enjoy the Sarlat show. As he
investigates, Bruno discovers that Kerquelin's wound was faked,
that he is alive and well and secretly negotiating a massive deal
to build a semi-conductor industry in France. But then a whole new
and dangerous player emerges, determined to nip the deal in the
bud.
When a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis, competing for its
land and spurring resentment among the villagers, the idyllic
town--where Benoit "Bruno" Courreges is the town's only
policeman--finds itself the center of an intense drama, with
suspicious fires at the agricultural research station that is
working on genetically-modified crops.
Two young men--Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic
wine, and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune--become
rivals for the affections of Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly
arrived Quebecoise student of wine. Events grow ever darker,
culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the
problems of the present are never far from those of the past.
'Evocative descriptions of the Perigord ... distinctive characters
... intricate mystery. Readers new to this series will feel right
at home' Publishers Weekly starred review Capturing the magic of
the Dordogne and its people, the Dordogne Mysteries are worldwide
bestsellers. Featuring Bruno, France's favourite policeman, along
with gourmet food and wine, local colour, sunshine and murder
mystery, no wonder they are so popular. Bruno Courreges is Chief of
Police of the lovely town of St Denis in the Dordogne. His main
wish is to keep the local people safe and his town free from crime.
But crime has a way of finding its way to him. For thirty years,
Bruno's boss, Chief of Detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, has been
obsessed with his first case. It was never solved and Bruno knows
that this failure continues to haunt J-J. A young male body was
found in the woods near St Denis and never identified. For all
these years, J-J has kept the skull as a reminder. He calls him
'Oscar'. Visiting the famous pre-history museum in nearby Les
Eyzies, Bruno sees some amazingly life-like heads expertly
reconstructed from ancient skulls. He suggests performing a similar
reconstruction on Oscar as a first step towards at last identifying
him. An expert is hired to start the reconstruction and the search
for Oscar's killer begins again in earnest.
France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to
the town he polices and the people he protects. Loved by millions,
the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of mystery and
escapism. The event of the PĂ©rigord tourist season is to be the
re-enactment of the liberation of the historic town of Sarlat from
the English in 1370. But it all goes wrong when the man playing the
part of the French general is almost killed in the heat of the
action. The immediate question for chief of police Bruno Courrèges
is was this an accident - or deliberate? The stakes rise when Bruno
learns that the man, Kerquelin, was running Frenchelon, the secret
French electronic intelligence base nearby, after being recruited
from a brilliant Silicon Valley career. His old Silicon Valley
colleagues have been invited to stay at the luxurious local chateau
of Rouffillac as his guests to enjoy the Sarlat show. As he
investigates, Bruno discovers that Kerquelin's wound was faked,
that he is alive and well and secretly negotiating a massive deal
to build a semi-conductor industry in France. But then a whole new
and dangerous player emerges, determined to nip the deal in the
bud.
'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?
The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic was called the most beautiful car of
all time. Only four of them were ever built. A California museum
paid $37 million for one; Ralph Lauren bought another; a third was
smashed by a train at a level crossing. The fourth disappeared in
France during World War 2. It was the car used by British racing
ace, William Grover Williams, twice winner of the French and Monaco
Grand Prix, who became an undercover agent in Occupied France. The
latest adventure in the Bruno series of mystery novels starts from
this true story. Two young men, both racing drivers with a passion
for antique cars, compete to find new clues as to the car's hiding
place in the Perigord region of France where Bruno is the local
chief of police. When a local researcher turns up dead on Bruno's
patch, and French intelligence starts investigating the use of
classic car sales to launder money for funding Islamic terrorism,
Bruno finds himself once more caught up in a case that reaches far
beyond his small town and its people. With the bucolic charm and
gourmet cooking that are the hallmarks of this series, Bruno's
latest adventure finds him falling in love again as he races to
find the murderer and to track down the fate of the most beautiful
car ever made.
A bumper collection of delightful stories featuring Bruno, Chief of
Police and France's favourite cop, all set in the beautiful
Dordogne valley and the ravishing Perigord region of the south
west. Here is a landscape of meandering rivers with medieval
castles overlooking their banks, of lush hillsides and spreading
vineyards, of delicious local wines and world renowned cuisine.
With titles like 'The Chocolate War'; 'The Birthday Lunch';
'Oystercatcher'; 'A Market Tale' and 'Fifty Million Bubbles', you
may be sure that champagne and gastronomy will feature as well as
cosy crime in 'Dangerous Vacation'. Bruno strides through these
tales, staying calm. settling local disputes and keeping safe his
beloved town of St Denis. Only on one occasion does he panic: in
'Bruno's Challenge', his friend Ivan, proprietor and chef of the
town's popular eatery, suddenly collapses on the eve of a large
anniversary dinner, and he asks Bruno to take over the restaurant.
After a few protests followed by some deep breaths, the inimitable
Bruno meets his challenge and saves the day.
Join Bruno, France's favourite country cop, on his latest adventure
as he fights to keep St Denis safe. Set in the beautiful Perigord
region, The Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of
mystery and escapism. It is summer in St Denis and Bruno is busy
organising the annual village concert. He's hired a local Perigord
folk group, Les Troubadours, to perform their latest hit 'A Song
for Catalonia'. But when the song unexpectedly goes viral, the
Spanish government, clamping down on the Catalonian bid for
independence, bans Les Troubadours from performing it. The timing
couldn't be worse, and Bruno finds himself under yet more pressure
when a specialist sniper's bullet is found in a wrecked car near
Bergerac. The car was reportedly stolen on the Spanish frontier and
the Spanish government sends warning that a group of nationalist
extremists may be planning an assassination in France. Bruno
immediately suspects that Les Troubadours and their audience might
be in danger. Bruno must organise security and ensure that his
beloved town and its people are safe - the stakes are high for
France's favourite policeman.
Millions of readers worldwide are talking about the Dordogne
Mysteries. Discover why and join them with this gripping new read
starring Bruno Chief of Police, France's favourite cop 'RICH ON
LOCAL COLOUR' THE TIMES 'DOLLOPS OF THE GOOD LIFE IN RURAL FRANCE
SPICED UP WITH INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'UNRIVALLED AT INTERWEAVING THE PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE PURSUITS
OF A THOROUGHLY LIKABLE COP' DAILY MAIL Following the funeral of a
local farmer, Bruno gets a phone call from his son. He tells Bruno
that before his father's sudden death, he had signed over his
property to an insurance company in return for a subscription to a
luxury retirement home. Bruno discovers that both the retirement
home and the insurance company are scams with links to a Russian
oligarch whose dealings are already being tracked by the French
police. Meanwhile an aging British rock star is selling his home,
Chateau Rock. The star's son returns for the summer with his
Russian girlfriend. As Bruno pursues his inquiries into the
farmer's death and the stolen inheritance, he learns that the
oligarch is none other than the girlfriend's father. Bruno's
talents are tested to the limit as he untangles a Gordian Knot of
criminality that reaches as far as the Kremlin. But luckily Bruno
still has time to cook delicious meals for his friends and enjoy
the life of his beloved Dordogne. What's more, love is in the air.
His pedigree basset, Balzac, is old enough to breed. Bruno heads
for the kennels where a suitable beauty, Diane de Poitiers, is
ready and waiting for Balzac's attentions...
'BEGUILING, EVOCATIVE, WONDERFUL ... THE ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH OF
FRANCE' Francis Wheen In the second mystery of this mouthwatering
and bestselling series, Bruno, Chief of Police of a small rural
French town, must balance local tradition and modern progress while
bringing a killer to justice. Just before dawn one summer morning
Bruno is summoned by the wail of the siren in the little town of St
Denis in the Perigord. A fire is raging in a local barn and
spreading to the surrounding fields. When Bruno arrives at the
scene, the smell of petrol leaves no doubt: it was arson. The barn
belongs to an agricultural research company experimenting with
genetically modified crops - an unpopular move in deeply
traditional St Denis. Meanwhile, a Californian producer wants to
set up a wine-making business in the valley. Despite the money and
jobs this would bring, many fear it would destroy their town. When
a violent death follows the crop burning, it looks as though
someone is prepared to do anything to stop the scheme. Bruno will
have to draw on all his local knowledge to reach the truth.
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS CHILDREN OF WAR 'SO LIKEABLE IS BRUNO AND
SO CONVINCING HIS MILIEU THAT I WAS DESPERATE FOR MORE ...
FORMIDABLE!' Independent on Sunday Bruno, Chief of Police, France's
favourite cop, is under pressure once again in this internationally
bestselling series. He's investigating a murder - but it's one his
bosses would rather he left well alone... Bruno, Chief of Police in
the charming French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case
when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the
woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours earlier. But
Bruno's sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn't see this
investigation as a priority - there are bigger issues at stake.
Bruno has other ideas. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami turns
up at a French army base in Afghanistan hoping to get home to St
Denis. One of Bruno's old army comrades helps to smuggle Sami back
to France, but the FBI aren't far behind. Then an American woman
appears in St Denis with a warrant for Sami's extradition. Bruno
must unravel these multiple mysteries, amidst pressure from his
bosses, and find his own way to protect his town and its people.
'WILL MAKE READERS LONG FOR LAZY DAYS IN RURAL FRANCE' Irish
Independent Millions of readers worldwide are discovering the
special world of Bruno, Chief of Police, and the Dordogne
Mysteries. There's murder in paradise in the twelfth case for
France's favourite cop in this addition to a beloved series A
missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that
will shatter Bruno's charming village of St Denis. A rich American
art student is found dead at the bottom of a well in an ancient
hilltop castle. The young woman, Claudia, had been working in the
archives of an eminent French art historian, a crippled Resistance
war hero, at his art-filled chateau. As Claudia's White House
connections get the US Embassy and the FBI involved, Bruno traces
the people and events that led to her fatal accident - or was it
murder? Bruno learns that Claudia had been trying to buy the
chateau and art collection of her tutor, even while her researches
led her to suspect that some of his attributions may have been
forged. This takes Bruno down a trail that leads him from the ruins
of Berlin in 1945, to France's colonial war in Algeria. The long
arm of French history has reached out to find a new victim, but can
Bruno identify the killer - and prove his case?
'WITH BRUNO IN CHARGE THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR ONE OF THOSE CLASSIC
FEASTS THAT MAKE THIS SERIES SUCH A MOUTH-WATERING TREAT' New York
Times Book Review In this eleventh addition to a beguiling and
bestselling series, Bruno wonders which he's most afraid of - a
death squad loose in the woods or teaching a cookery class to the
tourists who flock to his beloved Dordogne Bruno, now Chief of
Police for the whole Vezere valley, has an unusual challenge to
rise to: teaching at his friend Pamela's new cookery school. It is
a daunting prospect - the disappearance of one of the school's
pupils almost serves as a welcome distraction. When the woman's
body is discovered in one half of a double homicide, the evidence
points to something far out of the ordinary. The other murder
victim is a man, covered in combat scars and with a false passport.
Investigations reveal a list of enemies as long as Bruno's arm. Any
one of them would have had good reason to kill him - but which
group managed it? And how did they find him? As more of their
mystery man's previous life is revealed, Bruno realizes that there
may be more intended victims in the vicinity. Now he must conduct
the biggest manhunt in St Denis' history to find the killers before
they strike again.
'WALKER'S FINEST YET ... A FIRST-RATE MYSTERY' - Entertainment
Weekly Bruno, Chief of Police, investigates when a body is found
floating in the river showing marks of Satanism. France's favourite
cop must track down a murderer while quelling his town's
superstitious fears in this page-turning mystery, part of an
internationally bestselling series. It is springtime France's
Perigord, a time of beauty and calm. But not for Bruno, chief of
police of the small town of St Denis. A woman's body has been found
on a boat, bearing signs of a black magic ritual. Bruno has too
much on his plate as it is - mediating a domestic abuse case that
needs careful handling and a dodgy local development proposal that
seems just too good to be true. But a murder case must take
precedent and the roots of this one lie buried deep in the past -
linked to a chateau above a bend in the river, to the reclusive old
woman who lives there, and to the secret hidden in the Devil's
Cave.
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