β Scribed by Martin Walker
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 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 companies owned by a Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport. The companies are based in Cyprus, Malta, and Luxembourg, but Bruno finds a weak spot in France: the Russian's France-basednotaireand insurance agent. As Bruno is pursuing this lead, the oligarch's daughter turns up in the PΓ©rigord, and complications ensue, eventually bringing the action to the chΓ’teau of an aging rock star. But, as ever, Bruno makes time for lunch amid it all.
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