A Taste for Vengeance
Escape with Bruno to France in this death-in-paradise thriller
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4.3 • 31 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'French tourism should raise a glass to the Dordogne Mysteries' Daily Mail
France's favourite cop, Bruno, faces a terrible threat to his beloved town - a death squad loose in the woods.
Bruno, now Chief of Police for the whole Vézère valley, has an unusual challenge to rise to: teaching at his friend Pamela's new cookery school. It is a daunting prospect - the disappearance of one of the school's pupils almost serves as a welcome distraction.
When the woman's body is discovered in one half of a double homicide, the evidence points to something far out of the ordinary. The other murder victim is a man, covered in combat scars and with a false passport. Investigations reveal a list of enemies as long as Bruno's arm. Any one of them would have had good reason to kill him - but which group managed it? And how did they find him?
As more of their mystery man's previous life is revealed, Bruno realizes that there may be more intended victims in the vicinity. Now he must conduct the biggest manhunt in St Denis' history to find the killers before they strike again.
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What readers are saying about A Taste for Vengeance
'Brilliant!' 5* reader review
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bruno Courr ges, the police chief of the Dordogne village of St. Denis, goes looking for English tourist Monika Felder after she fails to show up for a cooking class in Walker's entertaining 11th series mystery (after 2017's The Templars' Last Secret). Bruno learns that Monika, who left her husband back in England, was traveling with Patrick McBride, an Irishman with a house in the area. Monika turns up at the house, fatally stabbed in the bathroom; McBride's body is found hanging from a tree in the nearby woods. What at first appears to be a murder-suicide proves to be a double homicide involving more than one killer and with links to a multimillion-dollar theft in Iraq and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The efficient Bruno also manages to help one of the women's rugby players he's coached since childhood sort out some serious problems, run through some favorite Dordogne recipes while teaching a cooking class, and continue his on-again, off-again romance with a former colleague. Walker's formula for regional crime fiction still appeals, though this outing's global elements are something of a stretch.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant characters and storyline but beginning to stretch credibility
In one way, it’s a shame Bruno is such a local lad because the number of international incidents that cross his path is beginning to stretch credibility. Please tell Pamela that Allspice is a Caribbean berry and is not the same as quatre-epices and please bring him and Isabelle to it’s deserved wonderful conclusion; we can’t go on like this. Bang the mad-English woman firmly on the head. Despite his resistance move him and Hector to Paris or Brussels.
Another Excellent Serving
Bruno receives a promotion and is now to be in overall responsibility for the municipal policing in the whole of his valley. A friend asks him to look into the non-appearance of a female guest due at her new cookery school. He soon discovers that she did arrive, but a day earlier than she had told Bruno’s friend she would arrive, and in the company of a man. The trail soon leads to a house where the woman is found murdered, with the man dead outside the property. Things quickly turn more and more complicated, taking on an international angle. This story is all set against the backdrop of Bruno’s townsfolk and the life and culture - especially food - of the Périgord.
Each of these books can be read as a stand-alone but, having read all of them, I eagerly wait for the next one each time, and look forward to reacquainting myself once again with Bruno and the good folk of this beautiful area of France