num_pages: 354
description:  A missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter the village of St Denis. Bruno chief of police faces a dark reckoning with France's past in this page-turning mystery.A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a well in an ancient hilltop castle. The young woman Claudia had been working in the archives of an eminent French art historian a crippled Resistance war hero at his art-filled chateau. As Claudia's White House connections get the US Embassy and the FBI involved Bruno traces the people and events that led to her death - or was it murder?Bruno learns that Claudia had been trying to buy the chateau and art collection of her tutor even while her researches led her to suspect that some of his attributions may have been forged. This takes Bruno down a trail that leads him from the ruins of Berlin in 1945 to France's colonial war in Algeria.The long arm of French history has reached out to find a new victim but can Bruno identify the killer - and prove his case?
language: English
title: The Body in the Castle Well
publisher: Quercus