The Shooting at Chateau Rock: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
(Book #13 in the Bruno, Chief of Police Series)
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Book Overview
The thirteenth installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno. It's summer in the Dordogne and the heirs of a modest sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited. Their father's estate has been sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer dies before he can move in. Was it a natural death? Or was there foul play? Chief of Police Bruno Courr?ges is soon on the case, embarking on an investigation that will lead him to several shadowy insurance companies owned by a Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport. The arrival of the oligarch's daughter in the P?rigord only further complicates one of Bruno's toughest cases yet. It will take all of his resolve and quick thinking to untangle the truth in a mystery that will reach its deadly denouement at the ch?teau of an aging rock star. But in true Bruno fashion, at least lunchtime is never in danger.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0525656650
ISBN13:9780525656654
Release Date:May 2020
Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.12 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
The Shooting at Chateau Rock not up to par
Published by Jane Ames , 1 year ago
I enjoy all the character development and subplots in the Bruno series but this particular book seemed very weak in its main plot. If you are going to skip one, I would suggest this one. I’m already reading another, so it’s not the series, just this book.
As usual the pages and pages of cookery are annoying.
Published by Sue Wilton , 1 year ago
I have to assume that pages and pages of cookery in mystery books these days is de rigueur. The Bruno books are the most obtrusive with it and by the time I've come to the end, I want to shout, "For Heaven's sake! Publish a recipe book and have done with it!" Still, a recipe book doesn't provide page fodder.
As to the detailed description of dogs mating, not being a voyeur of animals, I found it unnecessary and rather puerile. However, once again, it provided page fodder.
I do generally enjoy these books in a mild way, but my friends refuse to read them because of a lack of a French-English glossary in each book. I assume they aren't written for those who are not French afficionados (oops, but that's Spanish. Sorry about that).
Check it out of the library; don't buy it.
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