The Shooting at Chateau Rock

Synopsis

When a local’s death is linked to a Russian oligarch and his multinational conglomerate, Bruno faces oneof his toughest cases yet, one that brings together a conniving French businessman and a rock star—and, ofcourse, Bergerac red and white.It’s summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a modest Périgordian sheep farmer learn upon his death that theyhave been disinherited, and their father’s estate sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that would haveplaced him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. His children are immediately suspicious of theuncharacteristically lavish arrangement. Their inquest raises other unsavory questions about his passing: Was it anatural death? Was there foul play?Bruno begins an investigation that leads him to several shadowy companies owned by a Russian billionaire. Thecompanies are based in Cyprus, Malta, and Luxembourg, but Bruno finds a way into the organization in France: arecently relocated notaire and an insurance agent. As Bruno pursues this ominious lead, the Russian’s daughter turnsup in the Périgord, further complicating the case. All leads to a deadly denouement at the château of the rock star.It takes all of Bruno’s resolve and quick thinking to untangle the truth. But, as ever—Bruno makes time for lunch.