Bruno, Chief of Police #12
The Body in the Castle Well
Martin Walker
Bruno's personalized approach to policing still holds here but he doesn't seem to be able to prevent his clients from killing one another. In this case a visiting doctoral student in French Art is the victim found in the well. While he sifts through the suspects Bruno continues to go for rides on Hector accompanied by his Basset Balzac and indulge in epicurean delights. Not sure I'm interested in trying Pate de Foie Gras and truffles nor do I favour caviar and given the price just as well. Cooking with duck fat?
The author has done a great deal of research. The political machinations of Vichy France, of which this region was a part, get quite an airing. And since the victim was researching art history we learn that the Nazis were not the first regime to engage in art thievery. Seems Napoleon was an art collector as well and he didn't buy it. It's one thing that old masters employed their students in finishing the mundane backgrounds of their famous works but there's an entire industry in art forgery. Authenticating the provenience of a work of art calls for experts in the field.
The victim here comes from money.
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