num_pages: 342
description: Mystery food and wine in the French province of Dordognethe latest offering from Martin Walker featuring Benot Bruno Courrges.Its spring in St. Denis. The village choir is preparing for its Easter concert the wildflowers are blooming and among the lazy whorls of the river a dead woman is found floating in a boat. Its another case for Bruno the towns cherished chief of police. With the discovery of sinister markings and black candles near the body it seems to him that the occult might be involved. And as questions mountregarding a troubling real estate proposal in the region; a suspicious violent death made to look accidental; and the sudden reappearance of a politically controversial elderly countessBruno and his colleagues and friends are drawn ever closer to a climactic showdown in the Gouffre de Colombac: the place locals call the Devils Cave.With the enchanting backdrop of Frances pastoral heartland a cast of local characters as vibrant as their surroundings enough sumptuous repasts to satisfy any literary gourmand and a hero winningly capable of balancing the good life with a dogged dedication to solving the crimes that threaten it The Devils Cave invites readers to raise a glass and turn the page. 
language: English
title: The Devil's Cave
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf