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The Body in the Castle Well

Martin Walker

'WILL MAKE READERS LONG FOR LAZY DAYS IN RURAL FRANCE' Irish Independent

Millions of readers worldwide are discovering the special world of Bruno Chief of Police and the Dordogne Mysteries. There's murder in paradise in the twelfth case for France's favourite cop in this addition to a beloved series

A missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter Bruno's charming village of St Denis.


A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a 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 at his art-filled chateau.

As Claudia's White House connections get the US Embassy and the FBI involved Bruno traces the people and events that led to her fatal accident - 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 to France's colonial war in Algeria.

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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  • Classification : Thriller, Crime & Mystery
  • Pub Date : MAR 5, 2020
  • Imprint : Quercus
  • Page Extent : 384
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781786485779
  • Price : INR 699
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Martin Walker

Martin Walker was educated at Balliol College Oxford and Harvard. In 25 years with the Guardian he served as Bureau Chief in Moscow and in the US as European Editor. In addition to his prize-winning journalism he wrote and presented the BBC series Martin Walker's Russia and Clintonomics. He has written several acclaimed works of non-fiction including The Cold War: A History. His most recent novel is Dark Vineyard. He lives in Washington and spends his summers in his house in the Dordogne. Visit Bruno's website at www.brunochiefofpolice.com.

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