Deadly Camargue
A Provence Mystery
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Bestselling author Cay Rademacher delivers a captivating follow-up to his atmospheric Murderous Mistral with Deadly Camargue.
The narrative revolves around a baffling occurrence in Camargue, where a black fighting bull escapes its pasture, leaving a cyclist fatally gored. Suspicions are piqued as evidence surfaces, suggesting that someone left the gate open deliberately. The victim is Albert Cohen, a prominent Parisian journalist and television personality who was writing a significant article on Vincent van Gogh.
As Capitaine Roger Blanc tries to untangle this enigma, he discovers an incomplete, not-so-harmless report by Cohen. Delving deeper, he stumbles upon unsolved, high-profile burglary cases on the Côte d'Azur, and an old, deadly event that everyone is desperate to erase from their memories.
By the end, Blanc feels a little more at home in his new surroundings in Provence. But he pays a high price for it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rademacher's enjoyable second Provence mystery (after 2017's Murderous Mistral) finds Capt. Roger Blanc on a road where a bicyclist died horribly, gored by a fighting bull that escaped its corral, in the Camargue region of southern France during a summer heat wave. The dogged investigating of Blanc, a Parisian cop banished to the sleepy provinces for angering senior bureaucrats, reveals that the bull was let out on purpose; the bull's victim, prominent journalist Albert Cohen, was the target. The detective soon connects the crime with the theft of a van Gogh painting from a provincial museum and the 1980s killing of a local landowner by militant leftists. These discoveries don't endear Blanc to his local boss. At times, Blanc can be his own worst enemy, since he's having an affair with the wife of his biggest foe in Paris. Rademacher's vivid descriptions of the landscape, the pleasures of French food, and the history of van Gogh's time in the south add to the story's appeal. Armchair travelers will be rewarded.
