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Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 7
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Bruno's village of St. Denis has been called many things, but a hotbed of international intrigue has never been one of them ... until now. When an undercover agent is found murdered just as a prodigal son is set to return from a grim tour in the Middle East, the small town suddenly finds itself host to a determined global tribunal, threatening the usual cheer brought by St. Denis's annual wine festival.
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 13
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a Périgordian sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited, and their father's estate sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer never gets his life of luxury - he dies before moving in. Was it a natural death? Was there foul play? Bruno begins the investigation that leads him to several shadowy insurance...
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 8
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Attending the lavish birthday celebration of a World War II hero, police chief Bruno becomes intimately tangled in the family's dynamics when one of their close friends dies under suspicious circumstances.
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 12
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Claudia, a young American, turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle in Bruno's jurisdiction, her death is assumed to be an accident related to opioid use. But her doctor persuades Bruno that things may not be so simple. Thus begins an investigation that leads Bruno to Monsieur de Bourdeille, the scholar with whom the girl had been studying, and then through that man's past. He is a renowned art historian who became extraordinarily...
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Investigating an apparent occult murder during the Easter season in St. Denis, beloved chief of police Bruno discovers links to a troubling real estate proposal, a suspicious accident, and the sudden reappearance of a controversial elderly countess.
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 11
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Courrèges Bruno volume 6
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's summer in St. Denis for chief of police Bruno Courrèges, and that means a new season of cases. This time there are three weighing on his mind. First, there’s the evidence that a veteran of the French Resistance is connected to a notorious train robbery; then, the burglary of a former British spymaster's estate; and, finally, the murder of an antiques dealer whose lover is conveniently on the lam.
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 16
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After attending an exhibit on the facial reconstruction of ancient skulls, Bruno wonders if this technology might provide an invaluable clue to a 30-year-old cold case. But learning the identity of the murder victim is only the beginning. The investigation quickly turns thorny and leads Bruno to a reclusive vintner, Henri Bazaine, whose education at a vocational school in a formerly communist region has raised a red flag. An inquiry into the defunct...
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 15
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, Song for Catalonia, when the Spanish government suddenly bans the song. The songwriter, Joel Martin, is a local enthusiast for the old Occitan language of Périgord and the medieval troubadours, and he sympathizes with the Catalan bid for independence. The success of his song provokes outrage among extreme Spanish nationalists. Then, in a stolen car...
11) Fatal pursuit
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A pair of murders, a little romance, and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value--Bruno, chief of police, is busy in another mystery set in the beautiful Dordogne.
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 10
Publisher
Vintage, A Division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near the idyllic French town of St. Denis, chief of police Bruno Courrèges suspects a connection to the great ruin that stands above: a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold. With the help of Amélie, a young newcomer to the Dordogne, Bruno learns that the dead woman was an archaeologist searching for a religious artifact of incredible importance. And her ties to Islamic terrorists--not to mention...
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Benoit (Bruno) Courrges - devoted friend, cuisinier extraordinaire and the town's only municipal policeman - rushes to the scene when a research station for genetically modified crops is burned down outside Saint-Denis. Bruno immediately suspects a group of fervent environmentalists who live nearby, but the fire is only the first in a string of mysteries centering on the region's fertile soil. e Then a bevy of winemakers descends on Saint-Denis, competing...
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 16
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The town of Sarlat is staging a reenactment of its liberation from the British in the Hundred Years War when the play's French hero, Brice Kerquelin, is stabbed and feared fatally wounded. Is it an unfortunate prop malfunction or something more sinister? The stricken man happens to be number two in the French intelligence service, in line for the top job. Bruno is tasked with the safety of the victim s daughters, Claire and Nadia, as well as their...
15) Black diamond
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered.
