The Shooting at Chateau Rock: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 26, 2020 - Fiction - 320 pages
This installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno will take all of Bruno's resolve and quick thinking to untangle a mystery that will reach its deadly denouement at the château of an aging rock star. But in true Bruno fashion, at least lunchtime is never in danger.

It’s summer in the Dordogne and the heirs of a modest sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited. Their father’s estate has been sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer dies before he can move in. Was it a natural death? Or was there foul play? Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges is soon on the case, embarking on an investigation that will lead him to several shadowy insurance companies owned by a Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport.

The arrival of the oligarch’s daughter in the Périgord only further complicates one of Bruno’s toughest cases yet.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
25
Section 4
34
Section 5
43
Section 6
54
Section 7
62
Section 8
70
Section 17
162
Section 18
173
Section 19
184
Section 20
191
Section 21
202
Section 22
212
Section 23
220
Section 24
228

Section 9
78
Section 10
93
Section 11
101
Section 12
113
Section 13
121
Section 14
130
Section 15
138
Section 16
150
Section 25
240
Section 26
251
Section 27
263
Section 28
271
Section 29
283
Section 30
294
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MARTIN WALKER, after a long career of working in international journalism and for think tanks, now gardens, cooks, explores vineyards, writes and travels. His series of novels featuring Bruno, Chief of Police, are bestsellers in Europe and have been translated into more than fifteen languages. He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne.

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