Bruno, Chief of Police Series #5
Knopf
July 2013
On Sale: July 9, 2013
352 pages ISBN: 0385349521 EAN: 9780385349529 Kindle: B00B0LP42W Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Mystery, food, and wine in the French province of Dordogneโthe latest offering from Martin Walker, featuring Benoรฎt โBrunoโ Courrรจges.
Itโs 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. Itโs another case for Bruno, the townโs 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 mountโregarding 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 countessโBruno and his colleagues and friends are drawn ever closer to a climactic showdown in the Gouffre de Colombac: the place locals call the Devilโs Cave.
With the enchanting backdrop of Franceโs 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 Devilโs Cave invites readers to raise a glass and turn the page.
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