Bruno, hoofd van de politie Reeks

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1. Bruno, chef de police

   • Martin Walker

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   Bruno Courrèges mag dan wel commissaris van de politie zijn, eigenlijk heeft hij niet veel te doen in het kleine toeristische plaatsje St. Denis. Hij heeft een dienstwapen, maar dat draagt hij nooit. Hij heeft het recht mensen te arresteren, maar dat is in zijn loopbaan slechts één keer voorgekomen. Bruno houdt zich voornamelijk bezig met St. Denis te behoeden voor invloeden van buitenaf: de bemoeienissen van de Europese Commissie en de nationale politiek. Maar op bevrijdingsdag vindt er een vreselijke misdaad plaats. De grootvader van een Noord-Afrikaanse familie wordt dood aangetroffen. Iedereen denkt dat het een racistische moord is. Maar Bruno is niet overtuigd en stelt een grondig onderzoek in, dat de verhoudingen binnen het dorp ernstig zal verstoren.

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2. The Dark Vineyard. Grand Cru, englische Ausgabe

   • Martin Walker

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   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.

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3. Black Diamond

   • Martin Walker

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   At the heart of French gastronomy lies the famed black truffle of the Périgord. But France's truffles are being adulterated with cheaper ones from China, and it seems that Chinese organised crime is behind the fraud. The third internationally bestselling case for Bruno, Chief of Police. In St Denis market, a Vietnamese family has been selling their dishes for years, until their stall is wrecked by attackers who look Chinese. Again it appears that organised crime is behind the outrage, firing the opening shots of a Viet-Chinese triad war. When vicious murder, illegal immigration and the importation of underage girls for prostitution are added to the mix, Bruno has his work cut out to keep St Denis from tearing itself apart.

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4. Bruno Courrèges Investigation: Crowded Grave

   An Investigation by Bruno, Chief of Police

   • Martin Walker

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   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.

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5. Bruno, Chief of Police - 5: The Devil's Cave

   • Martin Walker

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   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.

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6. The Resistance Man

   • Martin Walker

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   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

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7. Children of war

   • Martin Walker

   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.

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8. The Dying Season

   • Martin Walker

   The Dordogne village of St Denis is tearing itself apart. Can Bruno, chef de police, keep it together in this gripping new crime novel?

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9. Fatal Pursuit

   • Martin Walker

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   The real life disappearance of 'the most beautiful car ever made' sparks a compelling new case for Bruno, chief of police

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10. The Templars' Last Secret

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    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...

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11. A Taste for Vengeance

    • Martin Walker

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    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

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12. The Body in the Castle Well

    • Martin Walker

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    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?

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13. A Shooting at Chateau Rock

    • Martin Walker

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    Millions of readers worldwide are talking about the Dordogne Mysteries. Discover why and join them with this gripping new read!

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