Pre-Owned Death in Brittany: A Mystery (Hardcover) by Jean-Luc Bannalec

from cathyskye

Bannalec has written a mystery with a marvelous sense of place, complete with some of its fascinating historical background. His descriptions are so vivid it was easy for me to picture the beautiful setting. The mystery is also a good one, with tie-ins to local history and to Paul Gauguin. What i...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

A well known & popular restaurant/hotel owner is found stabbed to death in his bar... His will was to have been changed, as he had been told that he had weeks remaining to live, but he was killed before the changes to his will could be made. Commissaire Dupin is called upon to solve the case... w...

from thornton37814

This first installment in the series features Commissar Dupin who must unravel a mystery concerning the death of an old man with no known enemies. Without giving too much of the plot away, art forgeries and art theft and possible plans to change a will all factor into this one. At the center is a...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

A well known & popular restaurant/hotel owner is found stabbed to death in his bar... His will was to have been changed, as he had been told that he had weeks remaining to live, but he was killed before the changes to his will could be made. Commissaire Dupin is called upon to solve the case... w...

from fyrefly98

Summary: Commissaire Georges Dupin is a police detective who moved to Brittany from Paris several years ago but is still widely regarded as an outsider by the local Bretons. He is called upon to investigate the murder of a 90-year-old hotel owner with no known enemies, in a small town that was kn...