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The Coldest Case

The Dordogne Mysteries, Book 14

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The Coldest Case

By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Capturing the magic of the Dordogne and its people, the Dordogne Mysteries are worldwide best sellers. Featuring Bruno, France's favourite policeman, along with gourmet food and wine, local colour, sunshine and murder mystery, no wonder they are so popular.

Bruno Courreges is chief of police of the lovely town of St Denis in the Dordogne. His main wish is to keep the local people safe and his town free from crime. But crime has a way of finding its way to him.

For 30 years, Bruno's boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, has been obsessed with his first case. It was never solved and Bruno knows that this failure continues to haunt J-J. A young male body was found in the woods near St Denis and never identified. For all these years, J-J has kept the skull as a reminder. He calls him 'Oscar'.

Visiting the famous pre-history museum in nearby Les Eyzies, Bruno sees some amazingly life-like heads expertly reconstructed from ancient skulls. He suggests performing a similar reconstruction on Oscar as a first step towards at last identifying him. An expert is hired to start the reconstruction and the search for Oscar's killer begins again in earnest.

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"Evocative descriptions of the Perigord...distinctive characters...intricate mystery. Readers new to this series will feel right at home." (Publishers Weekly)
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Enjoyable, topical, interesting and well written. one of the best in the series so far.

a good read....

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Thanks Peter Noble, Martin Walker and Audible for bringing us this fantastic book. It is wonderful to see the legendary Bruno return!

Thanks again, audible!

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I really enjoyed this book and could not put it down. Bruno is one of my favourite literary characters. The reading was excellently done as usual.

Another enjoyable Bruno book

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A most enjoyable story with uncomfortable realism of a great fire in the Perigord together with many mouth watering recipes and wine tastings!

Compelling story

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Another most enjoyable Bruno story. Some history learned too, as well as recipes and vivid descriptions of forest fires.

Who needs tv?

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Another interesting story of Bruno and for me the narration by Peter Noble with his French accent and various character voices makes the book come alive.

Superb narration

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nothing to dislike and everything to admire especially the twist at the end and always the descriptions of cooking and enjoying the fruits thereof

the very clever resolution to a seemingly lost case.

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Great approach to lcharacters including a cousin, a fire, a rescue and a satisfying resolution.

Narrative features enhance the storyline

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I enjoyed this latest book as much as I have the previous books in this series. Hopefully Martin Walker will keep the Bruno stories coming along.

Did not disappoint

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The technology went astray sometimes with little gaps but overall it was very enjoyable as usual.
Another good delivery with French accents all around. Covering climate change veganism and history another great learning experience too.

Inspector Bruno at his bravest!

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