Bruno Courrèges est le chef de la police municipale du petit village de Saint-Denis en Dordogne où il mène une vie paisible. Jusqu'au jour où un meurtre d'une brutalité sans précédent vient bouleverser la vie de la petite bourgade. Hamid, retraité de l'armée française, est retrouvé une croix gammée gravée sur le torse. Les enquêteurs privilégient la piste du crime raciste. Mais la réalité se révélera plus complexe et il faudra remonter le temps pour confondre le meurtrier et comprendre ses motivations.
Bruno, le chef de la police Séries
Plongez dans la charmante tranquillité de la campagne française, où un chef de police dévoué maintient la paix et la justice. Cette série se déroule dans un village pittoresque, chaque affaire révélant des relations humaines complexes et des secrets locaux. Suivez la vie des habitants, leurs joies et leurs peines, pendant que le protagoniste navigue à travers des crimes apparemment simples mais souvent compliqués. C'est une lecture parfaite pour les amateurs de fiction policière atmosphérique et perspicace.
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Bruno, Chief of Police - 4: The Dark Vineyard
- 318pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Crime - Police Chief Captain Bruno Courreges
Le Périgord est la patrie de la truffe noire, un trésor régional dont le prix atteint 5000 euros le kilo. Lorsque des rumeurs circulent sur un mélange de truffes noires sur le marché local avec des importations bon marché d'Asie, Bruno, le chef de police, se lance dans une enquête. Les choses prennent une tournure dramatique avec le meurtre de son vieil ami Hercule, le plus grand expert en truffes de la région. Bruno doit alors établir un lien entre ce crime et d'anciens délits liés à l'histoire coloniale peu glorieuse de la France en Indochine. Ce récit, qui commence comme une exploration tranquille d'une spécialité culinaire, se transforme en un thriller palpitant s'étendant sur plusieurs continents et un demi-siècle.
Bruno Courrèges Investigation: Crowded Grave
An Investigation by Bruno, Chief of Police
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Für Brunos Geschmack ist im malerischen Saint-Denis im Périgord entschieden zu viel los: Ein spanisch-französisches Gipfeltreffen ruft die Separatistenbewegung ETA auf den Plan, eine Gänsefarm wird von Tierschutzaktivisten attackiert, und dann ist da auch noch die archäologische Ausgrabungsstätte, deren deutscher Forschungsleiter nach einem prähistorischen Menschen sucht. Das Skelett, das dann auch gefunden wird, ist allerdings längst nicht so alt wie erhofft, und Bruno muss gute Nerven beweisen, um all die Fäden zusammenzuführen.
Bruno, Chief of Police: The Devil's Cave
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Mystery, food, and wine in the French province of Dordogne—the latest offering from Martin Walker, featuring Benoît “Bruno” Courrèges. It’s spring in St. Denis. The village choir is preparing for its Easter concert, the wildflowers are blooming, and among the lazy whorls of the river a dead woman is found floating in a boat. It’s another case for Bruno, the town’s cherished chief of police. With the discovery of sinister markings and black candles near the body, it seems to him that the occult might be involved. And as questions mount—regarding a troubling real estate proposal in the region; a suspicious, violent death made to look accidental; and the sudden reappearance of a politically controversial elderly countess—Bruno and his colleagues and friends are drawn ever closer to a climactic showdown in the Gouffre de Colombac: the place locals call the Devil’s Cave. With the enchanting backdrop of France’s pastoral heartland, a cast of local characters as vibrant as their surroundings, enough sumptuous repasts to satisfy any literary gourmand, and a hero winningly capable of balancing the good life with a dogged dedication to solving the crimes that threaten it, The Devil’s Cave invites readers to raise a glass and turn the page.
The Resistance Man
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
In south-west France, WW2 casts the longest shadow when some rare bank notes are discovered, notes that may have links to the legendary Neuvic train robbery in 1944 in the sixth internationally-bestselling case for Bruno, chief of police
The Children Return: A Mystery of the French Countryside
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
With clever twists and action aplenty, this installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno is a journey to St. Denis that readers won't soon forget. 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 retun 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.
The Dordogne village of St Denis is tearing itself apart. Can Bruno, chef de police, keep it together in this gripping new crime novel?
Fatal Pursuit
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
The real life disappearance of 'the most beautiful car ever made' sparks a compelling new case for Bruno, chief of police
The victim carries no identification and her fingerprints are not known to the French police or Interpol. The only clue to the woman's identity is that her dentistry looks American, but Bruno's inquiries at local hotels and gites yield no trace of a missing foreign woman. The chateau of Commarque, begun in the 11th century, was founded by a Bishop of Sarlat and entrusted to the Knights Templar. In the rocks beneath it are caves. It is one of the few Templar sites in France that has never been associated with the fabled hidden treasure of the Templars - never until now, when a local journalist publishes a sensational story around the unknown woman's death and a centuries-old mystery looks like it might finally be solved...
A Taste for Vengeance
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
A death squad loose in the woods and teaching a cookery class - Bruno knows which he's more afraid of in the eleventh mouthwatering addition to this beloved series
The Body in the Castle Well
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
A missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter the village of St Denis. Millions of readers worldwide are talking about the Dordogne Mysteries. Find out why and join them with the latest gripping addition to this beloved series. 'Will make readers long for lazy days in rural France' Irish Independent A 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. As 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? Bruno 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. The long arm of French history has reached out to find a new victim, but can Bruno identify the killer - and prove his case?
A Shooting at Chateau Rock
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Millions of readers worldwide are talking about the Dordogne Mysteries. Discover why and join them with this gripping new read!
