The Shooting at Chateau Rock: A Mystery of the French Countryside (Bruno, Chief of Police Series)

ISBN: 0525567062

Author: Walker, Martin

Condition: New

This installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno will take all of Bruno's resolve and quick thinking to untangle a mystery that will reach its deadly denouement at the chteau of an aging rock star. But in true Bruno fashion, at least lunchtime is never in danger.Its summer in the Dordogne and the heirs of a modest sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited. Their fathers estate has been 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 dies before he can move in. Was it a natural death? Or was there foul play? Chief of Police Bruno Courrges is soon on the case, embarking on an investigation that will lead him to several shadowy insurance companies owned by a Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport.The arrival of the oligarchs daughter in the Périgord only further complicates one of Brunos toughest cases yet.