Blogs in June 2024

A Grave in the Woods 20th June 2024

No., 17 in the Dordogne Mysteries The long arm of history reaches into the present in Bruno’s latest case when three sets of bones are discovered, buried deep in the woods outside the Dordogne town of St Denis. It...

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A Chateau under Siege 4th June 2023

No. 16 in the Dordogne Mystery series. France’s favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the people he protects. Loved by millions, the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of mystery and...

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Blackbird Fly 16th September 2022

When her husband dies suddenly, Merle Bennett and her teenage son decamp to the Dordogne to check out the stone cottage he left them… one they didn’t even know he owned. But a squatter has been living there for...

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To Kill a Troubadour 26th June 2022

It is summer in St Denis and Bruno is busy organising the annual village concert. He’s hired a local Périgord folk group, Les Troubadours, to perform their latest hit ‘A Song for Catalonia’. But when the song unexpectedly goes...

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The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel 27th December 2021

France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes, and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied...

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