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Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Benoit Courreges, affectionately named Bruno, chief of police in a small village in the South of France where the rituals of the cafe still rule. A former soldier, Bruno has embraced the slow rhythms of country life. But the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army galvanizes his attention: the man had a swastika carved into his chest. When a visiting scholar helps untangle the dead man's past, Bruno's suspicions turn...
Author
Series
Bruno chief of police volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
298, 9 p. : map ; 21 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
303, 13 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A prolific journalist, Martin Walker has crafted a mystery series that deftly blends the stylings of Peter Mayle and Alexander McCall Smith. Chief Bruno Courreges loves life in his small French village. One day his idyll is disturbed when a local research station for genetically modified crops is burned down. An enclave of environmentalists seems to be the most likely culprit, but soon Bruno uncovers evidence that makes the case infinitely more complicated....
Author
Series
Bruno chief of police volume 5
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Vintage books edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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 Investigation volume 6
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First United States Edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A veteran of the Resistance dies, and among his possessions are documents that connect him to a notorious train robbery. A former British spymaster's estate is burglarized, the latest in a spree of expert thefts. An academic's home is broken into just as she is finishing a revelatory book on Frances nuclear weapons program. An antiques dealer is found brutally murdered, and his former lover, the number one suspect, is on the run. It's just another...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seventh novel in Martin Walker's irresistible mystery series set in the South of France and starring Bruno, Chief of Police Bruno, chief of police in the 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bruno's biggest worry at the annual fete in St. Denis is surviving as a last-minute replacement navigator in a car rally race. A young Englishman tells Bruno an intriguing story about a Bugatti Type 57C, lost somewhere in France during World War II. Among the most beautiful cars ever made, it is worth millions and drives its pursuers mad with greed. When two deaths occur during the festivities, Bruno suspects that the events in St. Denis are linked...
Author
Series
A Bruno Chief of Police novel volume Book 10
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near St. Denis, Bruno suspects a connection to the great ruined Château de Commarque, a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold that stands...
Author
Series
A Bruno Chief of Police novel volume 11
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A missing woman, a shocking pregnancy, a dash of international intrigue, and a bottle or two of good Bergerac: it's another case for Bruno, Chief of Police. When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on Bruno for help. Monica Felder is nowhere to be found, and her husband, a retired British major, is unreachable. And not long...
Author
Series
A Bruno Chief of Police novel volume 14
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The suspicious death of an American in an ancient French castle catapults Bruno into a case involving an art historian's false claims, a young falconer, and a Vichy law officer with a complicated past.
Author
Series
A Bruno Chief of Police novel volume 13
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm.
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...
13) The coldest case
Author
Series
A Bruno Chief of Police novel volume 14
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a musician's new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists' ire, and it's up to Bruno to track down an extremist who seems ready to take deadly measures"--