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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...
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 3
Mystery of the French Countryside volume Bk 3
Bruno Chief of police volume 3
Bruno Chief of Police
Mystery of the French Countryside volume Bk 3
Bruno Chief of police volume 3
Bruno Chief of Police
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English
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CRIME & MYSTERY. At the heart of French gastronomy lies the famed black truffle of the Perigord. But France's truffles are being adulterated with cheaper ones from China, and it seems that Chinese organised crime is behind the fraud. In St Denis market, a Vietnamese family has been selling their dishes for years, until their stall is wrecked by attackers who look Chinese. Again it appears that organised crime is behind the outrage, firing the opening...
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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"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...
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"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...
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Vintage, A Division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Vintage books edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages : map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"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 Courr�eges suspects a connection to the great ruin that stands above: a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold. With the help of Am�elie, 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...
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