Lorsque Claudia Muller, une jeune femme américaine, se retrouve morte dans la cour d'un ancien château de sa juridiction, Bruno Courrèges suppose d'abord qu'elle est morte d'une overdose. Mais le médecin de Claudia le persuade bientôt que les choses ne sont peut-être pas si simples, mettant Bruno sur une enquête qui le mènera de la Renaissance à la Résistance française et au-delà. Claudia avait étudié avec Monsieur de Bourdeille, un historien de l'art renommé qui est devenu extraordinairement riche grâce à la vente de peintures qui auraient pu être faussement attribuées et ; ou alors Claudia l'a suggéré peu de temps avant sa mort. Dans sa jeunesse, Bourdeille avait aidé la Résistance et a été arrêté par un officier de police de Vichy dont l'histoire de la vie devient également inexorablement empêtrée dans l'affaire. Également dans le mélange est un jeune fauconnier qui travaille au Château des Milandes, l'ancienne maison de la légendaire chanteuse de jazz Josephine Baker. Encore une fois, c'est à Bruno de veiller à ce que justice soit rendue, ainsi qu'une généreuse aide de sa cuisine périgordienne signature, bien sûr.
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An aging art scholar and a visiting student, haunting echoes of France's colonialist past, and a delicious navarin of lamb--Bruno is back, and his latest case leads him from the Renaissance to the French Resistance and beyond by way of a corpse at the bottom of a well.
When Claudia, a young American, turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle in Bruno's jurisdiction, her death is assumed to be an accident related to opioid use. But her doctor persuades Bruno that things may not be so simple. Thus begins an investigation that leads Bruno to the girl's host and mentor in France, and then through his past. He is a renowned art historian who became extraordinarily wealthy through the sale of paintings that may have been falsely attributed--or so Claudia suggested shortly before her death. In his younger days the scholar had fought for the Resistance and been arrested by a Vichy policeman whose own complicated life story also becomes inexorably entangled with the case. Also in the mix is a young falconer who works at the Chateau des Milandes, the former home of fabled entertainer Josephine Baker. In the end, of course, Bruno will tie all the loose threads together and see that justice is served--along with a generous helping of his signature Périgordian cuisine.
MARTIN WALKER is a senior fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think tank based in Washington, D.C. He is also editor in chief emeritus and international affairs columnist at United Press International. His previous novels in the Bruno series are ; Bruno, Chief of Police; The Dark Vineyard; Black Diamond; The Crowded Grave; The Devil's Cave; The Resistance Man; The Children Return; The Patriarch; Fatal Pursuit; The Templars' Last Secret; and A Taste for Vengeance, all international best sellers. He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne.
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