132,936
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchno edit summary
[[Category:Crime|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->
{{newreview
|author=Martin Walker
|title=The Dying Season: A Bruno Courreges Investigation
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's said that you should never meet your heroes but Bruno Courrèges, chief of police of the sleepy Dordogne town of St Denis, has no such thoughts when he's invited to the 90th birthday celebrations of the man who has been his hero since he was a child. Marco Desaix is a war hero, flying ace and a man with high level political connections in France, Russia and Israel - and he's known as ''The Patriarch''. The party - if you can use such a mundane word for an occasion which includes a fly past by the air force - went well, with only one minor disruption when an old family friend accosted one of the daughters of the Desaix family and was disinclined to let go. Still, it was well known that he was an alcoholic and no one seemed surprised when Gilbert was removed without ceremony by the gamekeeper.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848664052</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= Mary Higgins Clark (editor)
|summary=Flavia Petrelli, who will be remembered by regular readers of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series as one of the suspects in the first case, ''Death at La Fenice'', has returned to Venice to sing the lead in ''Tosca''. But this time it's Petrelli who feels that she is a victim and for the strangest of reasons: she's being inundated with gifts. It began in other cities - the yellow roses thrown, in abundance, on to the stage, but this time there are even more roses. Her dressing room is filled with them and there's even a massive bouquet inside the locked apartment building where she's staying. It was Brunetti who proved her innocence the last time and it's to him that she turns with this latest problem.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023582</amazonuk>
}}
