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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
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...
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English
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"Bruno Courrèges, chef de police in the French country town of St Denis, is busy with one case when another, far more serious, pops up. The mutliated body of an undercover French cop is found in the woods, a man who'd phoned Bruno for help only hours before. But Bruno's sometime boss, the Brigadier, doesn't see this investigation as priority. There are bigger issues at stake. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami turns up at a French army base in...
Author
Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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 Courreges mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Bruno's biggest worry at the annual f©®te 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...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
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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Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 11
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...
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Series
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.
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 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...
Author
Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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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...
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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 Courreges mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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...
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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 hero, Brice Kerquelin, is stabbed and feared fatally wounded. Bruno is tasked with the safety of his old Silicon Valley buddies, in town for a reunion. One friend, a tycoon in chip fabrication, soon goes missing, and Bruno suspects there may be a link to the French government's efforts to build a chip industry in Europe. Wading...
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