Death in Pont-Aven von Jean Luc Bannalec

Der Buchtitel „Death in Pont-Aven“ vom Autor Jean Luc Bannalec
am 14. 05. 2014 veröffentlicht im Hesperus Press Ltd. Verlag erschienen.

Serie: Commissaire Dupin Band: 1.0#

Commissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie is dragged from his morning croissants and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven – a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one other and nothing much seems to happen – is in shock. The manager at the Central Hotel has come downstairs that morning to find ninety-one-year-old owner Pierre-Louis Pennec dead on the restaurant floor. Dupin and his team identify five principal suspects, including a rising political star, a longtime friend of the victim and a wealthy art historian. Further incidents – first a break-in, then another death – only compound the mystery. As Commissaire Dupin delves further and further into the lives of the victim and the suspects, he uncovers a web of secrecy and silence that belies the village’s idyllic image. Death in Pont-Aven introduces readers to the enigmatic Commissaire Dupin, an idiosyncratic penguin lover whose…

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd.