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Death in Pont-Aven (aka Death in Brittany) (Brittany Mystery, Bk 1)
Death in PontAven - aka Death in Brittany - Brittany Mystery, Bk 1 Author:Jean-Luc Bannalec, Sorcha McDonagh (Translator) Commissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. — The local village of Pont-Aven - a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one other and no... more »thing much seems to happen - is in shock. The legendary ninety-one-year-old hotelier Pierre-Louis Pennec, owner of the Central Hotel, has been found dead.
A picture-perfect seaside village that played host to Gaugin in the nineteenth century, Pont-Aven is at the height of its tourist season and is immediately thrown into uproar. As Dupin delves into the lives of the victim and the suspects, he uncovers a web of secrecy and silence that belies the village's quaint image.« less