The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery (Brittany Mystery Ser

ISBN: 1250252954

Author: Bannalec, Jean-Luc

Condition: new

"Roll over Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived." -M.C. Beaton on Death in Brittany"Very satisfyingalong the lines of Martin Walkers novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworths Aix-en-Provence mysteries." -Booklist on Murder on Brittany ShoresThe Missing Corpse is internationally bestselling author, Jean-Luc Bannalecs fourth novel in the Commissaire Dupin series. Its picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany.Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. By the time Commissaire Dupin arrives at the scene, the body has disappeared. A little while later, he receives a phone call from the mystical hills of Monts d'Arree, where legends of fairies and the devil abound: another unidentified body has turned up. Dupin quickly realizes this may be his most difficult and confounding case yet, with links to celtic myths, a sand theft operation, and mysterious ancient druid cults.