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Name: Death in Brittany

Author: Jean-Luc Bannalec
Year: 2012
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Mystery, Crime, Fiction

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ISBNs:
9781250061744
9783462044065
1250061741
3462044060

At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found murdered. Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team take on the investigation and narrow the list of suspects down to five people, including a rising political star, a longtime friend of the victim and a wealthy art historian. Further incidents - first a break-in, then another mysterious death - muddy the waters yet more. As Commissaire Dupin delves further and further into the lives of the victim and the suspects, he uncovers a web of secrecy and silence that belies the village's idyllic image.

A summer hit in its original German, Death in Pont-Aven introduces readers to the enigmatic Commissaire Dupin, an idiosyncratic penguin lover and Parisian-born caffeine junkie whose unique methods of detection raise more than a few eyebrows. It is a book so atmospheric readers will immediately want to wander through the village's narrow alleyways, breathe in the Atlantic air and savour Brittany's seaside specialty dishes. Death in Pont-Aven is a spellbinding, subtle and smart crime novel, peppered with cryptic humour and surprising twists.

This book is part of the "Kommissar Dupin" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Missing Corpse"
First published in 2015
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"Murder on Brittany Shores"
First published in 2013
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