The Body in the Castle Well
pbA missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter the village of St Denis. /bbMillions of readers worldwide are talking about the Dordogne Mysteries. Find out why and join them with the latest gripping addition to this beloved series./bbrbrb'Will make readers long for lazy days in rural France' iIrish Independent/ibrbr/bA 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. brbrAs 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?brbrBruno 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.brbrThe long arm of French history has reached out to find a new victim, but can Bruno identify the killer - and prove his case?/p
Autor: | Walker, Martin |
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EAN: | 9781529406894 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 384 |
Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
Verlag: | Quercus |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 19.02.2020 |
Untertitel: | The Dordogne Mysteries |
Schlagworte: | Dordogne; Krimis/Thriller Englisch; Krimis/Thriller anticipated instalment modern and contemporary fiction gripping crime thrillers and mystery Benoit Bruno Courrèges The Dordogne Mysteries Bruno Chief of Police series Chief of Police Bruno mystery novels detective series crime series mystery and suspense murder mystery mystery fiction police thrillers police series holiday reads 2022 books set in france french crime european crime Dordogne south of France evocative French setting police procedural investigations detective fiction rural France crime novels set in europe gentle mysteries french characters french detective gripping mystery books about france Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot |
Größe: | 25 × 110 × 175 |
Gewicht: | 209 g |