Annotation
Mystery, food, and wine in the French province of Dordogne the latest offering from Martin Walker, featuring Benoit Bruno Courreges.
It s spring in St. Denis. The village choir is preparing for its Easter concert, the wildflowers are blooming, and among the lazy whorls of the river a dead woman is found floating in a boat. It s another case for Bruno, the town s cherished chief of police. With the discovery of sinister markings and black candles near the body, it seems to him that the occult might be involved. And as questions mount regarding a troubling real estate proposal in the region; a suspicious, violent death made to look accidental; and the sudden reappearance of a politically controversial elderly countess Bruno and his colleagues and friends are drawn ever closer to a climactic showdown in the Gouffre de Colombac: the place locals call the Devil s Cave.
With the enchanting backdrop of France s pastoral heartland, a cast of local characters as vibrant as their surroundings, enough sumptuous repasts to satisfy any literary gourmand, and a hero winningly capable of balancing the good life with a dogged dedication to solving the crimes that threaten it, "The Devil s Cave" invites readers to raise a glass and turn the page.
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Characters
| Name | Courreges, Benoit "Bruno" |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Chief of police |
| Trait | French |
| Genre | Fiction Mystery --Police procedural Suspense Pastoral |
| Topics | Village life Murder investigations Occultism Land developers Suspicious deaths Nobility Caving Tourism Fraud Land development |
| Setting | France |
| Series | ||
| Bruno, Chief of Police | ||
| 1 | Bruno, chief of police | |
| 2 | The Dark vineyard | |
| 3 | Black diamond | |
| 4 | The Crowded grave | |
| 5 | The Devil's cave | |
| 5.5 | Bruno and the carol singers | |
| 6 | The Resistance man | |
| 7 | The Children return | |