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The Coldest Case

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781787477766

Price: £8.99

ON SALE: 3rd March 2022

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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Murder mystery starring Bruno, France’s favourite policeman, plus food and wine, great characters and sunshine and everything that’s wonderful about the Dordogne.

‘RICH ON LOCAL COLOUR’ THE TIMES

For thirty 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.

‘DOLLOPS OF THE GOOD LIFE IN RURAL FRANCE SPICED UP WITH INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘UNRIVALED AT INTERWEAVING THE PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE PURSUITS OF A THOROUGH LIKABLE COP’ DAILY MAIL

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Reviews

It's a delight to dip into his sun soaked world
Observer
Walker weaves an exciting story against a backdrop of bucolic bliss
Daily Mail
It's Midsomer Murders meets MasterChef flavoured with espionage, dog breeding and veganism
Sun
Walker's strength lies in his ability to bring out the character and charm of the region and interlace this with a strong plot that carries an equal sense of time and place
Crime Review
New readers to the series can comfortably start here - Walker has the rare ability in a series writer of orienting old and new readers alike. A feast
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