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When an old North African man is found viciously murdered - a swastika carved in his chest - the obvious conclusion is that the killing must be racist. But Captain Bruno Courrèges isn't convinced, and suspects it may have its roots in that most tortured period of French history - the Second World War.
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Fiction, North Africans, Crimes against, World War, 1939-1945, Underground movements, Country life, Police chiefs, Police, Investigation, Murder, National socialism, Mystery, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, France, fiction, Nazisme, Romans, nouvellesPlaces
Southwest France, Périgord (France), France, PérigordShowing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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Bruno, Chef de police: Roman
2014, Diogenes
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Bruno, Chief of Police
Mar 12, 2009, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
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Bruno, Chief of Police
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the cafe still rule. Bruno--as he is affectionately nicknamed--may be the town's only municipal policeman, but in the hearts and minds of its denizens, he is chief of police.Bruno is a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life--living in his restored shepherd's cottage; patronizing the weekly market; sparring with, and basically ignoring, the European Union bureaucrats from Brussels. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it. But then the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army changes everything and galvanizes Bruno's attention: the man was found with a swastika carved into his chest.Because of the case's potential political ramifications, a young policewoman is sent from Paris to aid Bruno with his investigation. The two immediately suspect militants from the anti-immigrant National Front, but when a visiting scholar helps to untangle the dead man's past, Bruno's suspicions turn toward a more complex motive. His investigation draws him into one of the darkest chapters of French history--World War II, a time of terror and betrayal that set brother against brother. Bruno soon discovers that even his seemingly perfect corner of la belle France is not exempt from that period's sinister legacy.Bruno, Chief of Police is deftly dark, mesmerizing, and totally engaging.From the Hardcover edition.
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