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EAN : 9782258196087
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 368
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Such a Peaceful Town

Collection : Terres de France
Release date : 17/03/2022
The third instalment of the Warrant Officer Derval investigations after Trois femmes en noir and Les Brumes de décembre, straddling the worlds of football and the polite society of local dignitaries…
Posted to the gendarmerie in Vannes, Derval makes the acquaintance of police lieutenant Héloïse Daubert in the course of a demonstration. The peaceful town is soon rocked by two dramas: the murder of a couple – a footballer who plays for one of the two clubs in Vannes and his... Posted to the gendarmerie in Vannes, Derval makes the acquaintance of police lieutenant Héloïse Daubert in the course of a demonstration. The peaceful town is soon rocked by two dramas: the murder of a couple – a footballer who plays for one of the two clubs in Vannes and his antique dealer wife – and also of a teenage girl whose body is found in a vault in Saint-Avé cemetery. The gendarme and the policewoman keep in daily touch about the progress of their investigations, which ruffle feathers among the local bourgeoisie and their elected officials as they cast a light on the rather risqué soirées organised by a certain Timothy Harding, who claims to be an Englishman. The inquiry gets bogged down, and then there is a third murder, this time of the gravedigger at Saint-Avé cemetery. And meanwhile, the friendship between Derval and Daubert develops into a sexual relationship…
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EAN : 9782258196087
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 368
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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