When a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment among the villagers, the idyllic town—where Benoit “Bruno” Courreges is the town’s only policeman—finds itself the center of an intense drama, with suspicious fires at the agricultural research station that is working on genetically-modified crops.

Two young men—Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune—become rivals for the affections of Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Québécoise student of wine. Events grow ever darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far from those of the past.

Author

Martin Walker

Martin Walker is the U.S. bureau chief for The Guardian (London), a regular commentator for CNN, and a columnist for newspapers in the United States, Europe, and Moscow. A published novelist and poet, he lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, the novelist Julia Watson, and their two daughters.

Country of Origin

Books:

Series: Bruno Chief of Police

Book Number:
2
2011
Book Number:
1
2009
Blog Added to MtTBR - The Dark Vineyard, Martin Walker
Karen Chisholm
Monday, August 16, 2010
Review BRUNO CHIEF OF POLICE - Martin Walker
Karen Chisholm
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - Bruno Chief of Police, Martin Walker
Karen Chisholm
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
ISBN
9780307454713
Year of Publication
Publisher
Book Number (in series)
2
Location

Add new comment

This is a book review site, with no relationship whatsoever with any of the authors mentioned here.

We do not provide a method for you to contact authors for any reason and comments of this nature are automatically deleted.

This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.