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.
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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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The Dark Vineyard. Grand Cru, englische Ausgabe
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Just before dawn one summer morning Bruno is summoned by the wail of the siren in the little town of St Denis in the Périgord. A fire is raging in a local barn and spreading to the surrounding fields. When Bruno arrives at the scene, the smell of petrol leaves no doubt it was arson. Meanwhile, a Californian producer wants to set up a wine-making business in the valley. Despite the money and jobs this would bring, many fear it would destroy their town. When a violent death follows the crop burning, it looks as though someone is prepared to do anything to stop the scheme. Bruno will have to draw on all his local knowledge to reach the truth.
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 - 5: The Devil's Cave
- 376pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Springtime in St Denis and a female body has been found on a boat, bearing the ghastly signs of a black magic ritual. The victim is unknown and nobody is coming forward. This is the last thing Bruno needs.
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
Bruno, chef de 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 before. But Bruno's sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn't see this investigation as a priority - there are bigger issues at stake. Bruno has other ideas. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami turns up at a French army base in Afghanistan hoping to get home to St Denis. One of Bruno's old army comrades helps to smuggle Sami back to France, but the FBI aren't far behind. Then an American woman appears in St Denis with a warrant for Sami's extradition. Bruno must unravel these multiple mysteries, amidst pressure from his bosses, and find his own way to protect his town and its people.
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
Thanks to Bruno's dog, Balzac, a rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a deep 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 and an expert on the French Renaissance, at his art-filled chateau. As Claudia's grieving mother arrives in St Denis and her family's White House connections get the US Embassy and the FBI involved, Bruno tries to trace the people and events that led to her death - 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, where a French SS soldier won the last Knight's Cross that Hitler awarded, to France's colonial war in Algeria and the OAS extremists who tried to assassinate De Gaulle. 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
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