Martin Walker—Bruno Chief of Police Books
The Dark Vineyard Published 2009 Read Jun 2022
The Resistance Man Published 2013 Read July 2022
The Crowded Grave Published 2011 Read July 2022, Sept 2022
Black Diamond Published 2010 Read July 2022
The Templar’s Last Secret Published 2017 Read Aug 2022
The Patriarch Published 2016 Read Aug 2022
The Children Return Published 2014 Read Aug 2022
Fatal Pursuit Published 2016 Read Aug 2022
The Coldest Cave Published 2021 Read Sept 2022
Shooting at Chateau Rock Published 2020 Read Sept 2022
Caves of Perigold Published 2022 Read Sept 2022
Body in the Caste Well Published 2019 Read Sept 2022
A Taste for Vengeance Published 2019 Read Sept 2022
This reader began reading this series previously but in June of 2022 binge reading of this series started. This reader was progressing through the series when the matter discussed in Books-How They Mattered to Me This Year occurred. This series was one of several that enabled me to deal productively with the events.
This series of books is about Benoît “Bruno” Courrèges, a former soldier and current police chief (and only police officer) of a small village in the Perigold region of France. The book series follows Bruno as he deals with mysteries that regularly involve international matters and thus the national police force for which his former (and sometimes current) ambitious lover works. Bruno owns a small house with a garden and chicken coop which provide him items he supplements with purchases from the village to make scrumptious meals he often shares with his friends. (A friend of this reader has termed the series a sort of food porn due to the details of the ingredients and food preparation). The reader is also always treated to some sort of history lesson of France or the local region. As with other series, there is a slow arc across the books regarding the story of Bruno, his loves, and his friends. This series delighted this reader by using the same reader for all the audiobooks to which she listened—Robert Ian MacKenzie. This reader was delighted to learn that more Bruno books have been published. Hooray!
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