The Resistance Man: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel Author: Martin Walker | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EX4E20S | Format: EPUB
The Resistance Man: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel Description
Bruno Courrèges—provincial French police chief extraordinaire—is back in another delectable tale of mystery and suspense that unfolds in the gastronomically ravishing Dordogne.
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 France’s 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 summer in St. Denis for Bruno, who must balance the constant barrage of demands on his time and expertise—including the complex affections of two powerful women, town politics (the mayor is having romantic problems of his own), his irrepressible puppy, Balzac, and nights entertaining friends and visitors with ever-sumptuous repasts—with a new focus on the mounting crime wave, whose seemingly unrelated events Bruno begins to suspect are linked. His search for clues to crimes old and new leads to stunning revelations about both his country’s history and his own, and puts several more lives—including Bruno’s—in deadly danger. In a thrilling denouement that proves the past is never really past, Bruno fights to secure the future of his beloved community and those he cares about most.
As charming and compelling as its hero,
The Resistance Man offers fresh joys for loyal readers and newcomers alike.
From the Hardcover edition.- File Size: 3591 KB
- Print Length: 337 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0385349548
- Publisher: Knopf (February 25, 2014)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EX4E20S
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel > Europe > France - #8
in Books > Travel > Europe > France > General - #28
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > International Mystery & Crime
This is the sixth and latest of Martin Walker's "Bruno" novels and, like its predecessors, a great read--well written, cleverly plotted and hugely addictive. While I think it's always a good idea to read series novels--especially mystery series novels--in chronological order, I think these tend to stand up better than most others as stand-alones.
So, first, a bit of back story for newbies: Benoit Courreges, known to all as Bruno, grew up in an orphanage, fought in Bosnia, found then lost his true love to that war, then went on to become the one-man police force of St. Denis, a small town in the Dordogne region of France that rightfully adores him and considers him "family." He's also a culinary whiz and oenophile. At the beginning of this series he meets and finds love again with Isabelle, a smart and ambitious French detective who loves him back. But, unfortunately, she's as allergic to small town life as he is to big cities and as uninterested in having children as he is deeply in need of them. No way that relationship is ever gonna have a happily ever after, yet her job keeps sending her back to St. Denis and Bruno. But that may be about to end.
So, on to book 6, which begins with the death of one of the town's few remaining WWII Resistance veterans, who's found clutching a 1940s Vichy banknote in his hands, which may be connected to a famous unsolved long-ago train robbery. On the same day comes reports of a rash of burglaries of furniture, paintings and other valuable collectibles from several houses owned by wealthy foreigners who spend their summers in this part of France. Then comes word of an Englishman found murdered in a nearby gite (a cheaply restored farmhouse turned holiday rental). Are any or all of these things connected?
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