The Body in the Castle Well, Martin Walker
The Body in the Castle Well, Martin Walker
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The Body in the Castle Well

Author: Martin Walker

Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/04/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Martin Walker

Martin Walker is a senior fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think tank based in Washington, D.C. He is also editor in chief emeritus and international affairs columnist at United Press International. His books include The Cold War: A History, Makers of the American Century, and the Bruno series. He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken

I've read all of Martin Walker's books now, and I'll tell you that this book makes the most sense with Bruno's life. As a policeman and as a potential lover, with all his possible lovers, which come into play somewhere in his story. You really want to eat one of Bruno's meals, ride with him when he......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

I have read all of these Bruno books from Martin Walker and look forward to each new set of problems accompanied by all the old friends, ritual meals and French countryside. The spotlight is on a lively and talented American young woman working in the art field who turns out to be "the body in the c......more