Black diamond / Martin Walker.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307700143 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780307700148 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780307700148
- ISBN: 0307700143
- ISBN: 9780307744630
- ISBN: 0307744639
- Physical Description: 297 pages : map ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Southbury Public Library | WALKER/MYS (Text) | 34019122827629 | Adult Mystery | Checked out | 04/07/2024 |
Black Diamond
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Summary
Black Diamond
The third installment in Martin Walker's delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno. Something dangerous is afoot in St. Denis. In the space of a few weeks, the normally sleepy village sees attacks on Vietnamese vendors, arson at a local Asian restaurant, subpar truffles from China smuggled into outgoing shipments at a nearby market--all of it threatening the Dordogne's truffle trade, worth millions of dollars each year, and all of it spelling trouble for Beno#65533;t "Bruno" Courr#65533;ges, master chef, devoted oenophile, and, most important, beloved chief of police. When one of his hunting partners, a noted truffle expert, is murdered, Bruno's investigation into the murky events unfolding around St. Denis becomes infinitely more complicated. His friend wasn't just a connoisseur of French delicacies, he was a former high-profile intelligence agent--and someone wanted him dead. As the strange crimes continue, Bruno's detective work takes him from sunlit markets to dim caf#65533;s, from luxurious feasts to tense negotiations--from all of the paradisial pleasures of the region to its shadowy underworld--and reunites him with a lost love, an ambitious policewoman also assigned to the case. Filled with an abundance of food and wine (including, bien s#65533;r, many, many truffles) and a soup#65533;on of romance, Black Diamond is a deliciously entertaining concoction that delivers all the complexity and delights of the Dordogne itself.