A Shooting at Chateau Rock

Martin Walker

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Following the funeral of a local farmer Bruno gets a phone call from his son. He tells Bruno that just before his father's sudden death he had signed over his property to an insurance company in return for a subscription to a luxury retirement home. Bruno discovers that both the retirement home and the insurance company are scams with links to a Russian oligarch whose dealings are already being tracked by the French police.


Meanwhile an aging British rock star is selling his home Chateau Rock. The star's son returns for the summer with his Russian girlfriend. As Bruno pursues his inquiries into the farmer's death and the stolen inheritance he learns that the oligarch is none other than the girlfriend's father. Bruno's talents are tested to the limit as he untangles a Gordian Knot of criminality that reaches as far as the Kremlin.

But luckily Bruno still has time to cook delicious meals for his friends and enjoy the life of his beloved Dordogne. What's more love is in the air. His pedigree basset Balzac is old enough to breed. Bruno heads for the kennels where a suitable beauty Diane de Poitiers is ready and waiting for Balzac's attentions...