num_pages: 320
description: At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven Brittany ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found murdered. Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team take on the investigation and narrow the list of suspects down to five people including a rising political star a longtime friend of the victim and a wealthy art historian. Further incidents  first a break-in then another mysterious death  muddy the waters yet more. As Commissaire Dupin delves further and further into the lives of the victim and the suspects he uncovers a web of secrecy and silence that belies the villages idyllic image. A summer hit in its original German Death in Pont-Aven introduces readers to the enigmatic Commissaire Dupin an idiosyncratic penguin lover and Parisian-born caffeine junkie whose unique methods of detection raise more than a few eyebrows. It is a book so atmospheric readers will immediately want to wander through the villages narrow alleyways breathe in the Atlantic air and savour Brittanys seaside specialty dishes. Death in Pont-Aven is a spellbinding subtle and smart crime novel peppered with cryptic humour and surprising twists.
language: English
title: Death in Brittany
publisher: Minotaur Books