When a local's troubling death is linked to a Russian oligarch and his multinational conglomerate, Bruno faces one of his toughest cases yet, one that brings together a French notary and a rock star--and, of course, Bergerac red and white.It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a PΓ©rigordian sheep
Death at the Chateau Bremont
β Scribed by M. L. Longworth
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016;2011
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0143119524
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β¦ Synopsis
The first installment in a sumptuous new mystery series set in Provence --featuring chief magistrate Antoine Verlaque, who must team up with his old flame Marine Bonnet to solve a mysterious pair of murders
The next book in the Verlaque & Bonnet ProvenΓ§al Mystery series, The Curse of La Fontaine , will be available from Penguin in April 2017!
When local nobleman Γtienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family chateau, it sets the historic town of Aix-en-Provence abuzz with rumors. Antoine Verlaque, the charming chief magistrate of Aix, suspects foul play, and when he discovers that Bremont had been a close friend of Marine Bonnet, his on-again off-again girlfriend, Verlaque must turn to her for help.
The once idyllic town suddenly seems filled with people who scould have benefited from Bremont's death--including his playboy brother FranΓ§ois, who's heavily in debt and mixed up with some unsavory characters....
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