Bruno Courreges mysteries
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 1
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Meet Benoit Courréges, affectionately named Bruno, chief of police in a small village in the South of France where the rituals of the café still rule. A former soldier, Bruno has embraced the slow rhythms of country life. But the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army galvanizes his attention: the man had a swastika carved into his chest. When a visiting scholar helps untangle the dead man's past, Bruno's suspicions turn...
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The dark vineyard: a case for Bruno, Chief of Police , Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 2
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 3
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
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297 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered.
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 4
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
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314 p.
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Welcoming the return of spring in his idyllic French village, chief of police Bruno Courrèges investigates a local murder at an archaeological dig site that is complicated by an animal rights clash and an international summit.
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 5
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
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333 pages : map ; 23 cm
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 6
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
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322 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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A crime wave in the village of St. Denis interrupts the summer culinary endeavors of police chief Bruno Courr?ges and is complicated by shocking news from his sometime girlfriend and a growing realization that the crimes are somehow related.
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 7
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
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319 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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"When an undercover agent tracking domestic jihadists is found murdered, it's troubling enough for Bruno's beloved village. But when this is followed by the return of Sami, a local autistic youth thought lost to Islamic extremism, provincial St. Denis suddenly becomes a front line in the global war on terror"--Dust jacket flap.
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 8
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2015.
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321 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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Attending the lavish birthday celebration of a World War II hero, police chief Bruno becomes intimately tangled in the family's dynamics when one of their close friends dies under suspicious circumstances.
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 9
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
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301 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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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.
Bruno's biggest worry at the annual fête 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...
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 10
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2017]
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317 pages : map ; 22 cm
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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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2018.
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"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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2019.
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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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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 13
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2020.
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"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...
14) The coldest case
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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321 pages.
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"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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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
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307 pages ; 22 cm.
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Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, “Song for Catalonia,” when the Spanish government suddenly bans the song. The songwriter, Joel Martin, is a local enthusiast for the old Occitan language of Périgord and the medieval troubadours, and he sympathizes with the Catalan bid for independence. The success of his song provokes outrage among extreme Spanish nationalists. Then, in a stolen...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
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289 pages ; 22 cm.
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When an actor in a local play is attacked during the performance, Bruno must learn whether it was an accident, a crime of passion--or an assassination attempt with implications far beyond the small French village.