The Patriarch
Bruno, Chief of Police: Book #8
- By: Martin Walker
- Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Description
A beloved village, a complicated family, a suspicious death-it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne for police chief Bruno. Martin Walker is a senior fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington, D.C. He is also editor-in-chief emeritus and international affairs columnist at United Press International. His previous novels in the Bruno series are Bruno, Chief of Police; The Dark Vineyard; Black Diamond; The Crowded Grave; The Devil's Cave; The Resistance Man, and The Children Return, all international best sellers. He lives in Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne.
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Bruno, Chief of Police Series
Bruno, Chief of Police
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed journalist Martin Walker has written a New York Times Notable Book and a novel shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Bruno, Chief of Police is the first installment of a series starring BenoIt "Bruno" CourrEges, the only cop stationed in a rural French village where tradition remains strong. "[A] timely whodunit .... Read more »
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The Dark Vineyard
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian McKenzie
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A prolific journalist, Martin Walker has crafted a mystery series that deftly blends the stylings of Peter Mayle and Alexander McCall Smith. Chief Bruno Courreges loves life in his small French village. One day his idyll is disturbed when a local research station for genetically modified crops is burned down. An enclave of environmentalists... Read more »
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Black Diamond
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Martin Walker's previous two novels starring Chief of Police Bruno CourrEges became hits with fans and critics around the globe. In this thrilling third mystery, Bruno has his hands full with trouble in the truffle trade in St. Denis' marketplace. And when a friend is murdered, things really start heating up. "Walker's... Read more »
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The Crowded Grave
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Another delectable serving of mystery and the pleasures of the Dordogne from the newest master of suspense, Martin Walker. It' s spring in the idyllic village of St. Denis, and for Chief of Police Bruno CourrEges that means lamb stews, bottles of his beloved Pomerol, morning walks with his hound, Gigi-- and a new string of regional crimes and... Read more »
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The Devil's Cave
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Martin Walker pens stories filled with small-town ambience and charming characters. In The Devil's Cave, police chief Bruno CourrEges is investigating a murder as the tiny French village of St. Denis prepares for Easter. An unknown woman--dead, naked, and bearing the marks of a black magic ritual--is found in a boat floating... Read more »
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The Resistance Man
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Bruno CourrEges--provincial French police chief extraordinaire--is back in another delectable tale of mystery and suspense that unfolds in the gastronomically ravishing Dordogne. Read more »
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The Children Return
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"The seventh novel in Martin Walker's irresistible mystery series set in the South of France and starring Bruno, Chief of Police Bruno, chief of police in the French town of St. Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours earlier. But... Read more »
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The Patriarch
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A beloved village, a complicated family, a suspicious death-it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne for police chief Bruno. Martin Walker is a senior fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington, D.C. He is also editor-in-chief emeritus and international affairs... Read more »
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Fatal Pursuit
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A pair of murders, a little romance, and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value--Bruno, chief of police, is busy in another mystery set in the beautiful Dordogne. At an annual fete in St. Denis, Bruno's biggest worry is surviving in the rally race. The rally and a classic car parade are new to the festivities and draw... Read more »
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The Templars' Last Secret
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero-and favorite gourmand-to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near St. Denis, Bruno suspects a connection to the... Read more »
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A Taste for Vengeance
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A missing woman, a shocking pregnancy, a dash of international intrigue, and a bottle or two of good Bergerac: it's another case for Bruno, Chief of Police. When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on Bruno for help.... Read more »
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The Body in the Castle Well
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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The Shooting at Chateau Rock
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
When a locals death is linked to a Russian oligarch and his multinational conglomerate, Bruno faces one of his toughest cases yet, one that brings together a conniving French businessman and a rock starand, of course, Bergerac red and white. Its summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a modest Périgordian sheep farmer learn upon his death that... Read more »
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The Coldest Case
By: Martin Walker
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder, sinister rumors from the Cold War era of espionage—Bruno's investigation into a long-standing cold case finds him caught between an enigmatic winegrower and a menacing Communist organization from the past. After attending an exhibit on the facial reconstruction of ancient skulls, Bruno wonders if this... Read more »
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Bruno and the Carol Singers
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian McKenzie
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Internationally best-selling author Martin Walker delights audiences with his holiday-themed mystery, "Bruno and the Carol Singers." It's Christmastime in the tiny French village of St. Denis and police chief Bruno CourrEges is busy playing PEre Noel for the children. But when money raised for charity goes missing, Bruno trades in his bag of... Read more »
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