The Body in the Castle Well


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
11
Narrator
4
Release Date
June 2019
Duration
10 hours 53 minutes
Summary
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 Monsieur de Bourdeille, the scholar with whom the girl had been studying, and then through that man's 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, Bourdeille had aided the Resistance and been arrested by a Vichy policeman whose own 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 jazz singer 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 Perigordian cuisine.
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Kenneth D.

A typical Bruno novel with lots of new characters introduced, lots of intrigue and French history, lots of gourmet cooking and wine along with some real police work. I wish Martin Walker would not rush the ending quite as much as I get confused at the end. The narrator is fabulous as usual.

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Rob

Story was too predictable and boring

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Kevin W.

Reads too fast

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