This is the first outing for Commissaire Dupin and I look forward to reading more of his investigations. Their investigation is compounded when there is a break-in in the hotel and another mysterious death. They are met with secrets that stretch back over the years. They soon begin to suspect that there was more to Pennec and the history of the Central Hotel than meets the eye. At first Dupin and his colleagues Le Ber and Labat are puzzled as to why anyone would want to kill Pennec. There he finds 91 year old owner Pierre-Louis Pennec stabbed to death. One morning he is called to the Central Hotel in Pont Aven, a picturesque seaside village.
Not one to bow to authority, he never the less has grown to love his new surroundings, though even now is not considered a local by the Bretons he lives and works with. Georges Dupin has been Commissaire of Concarneau, Brittany for a few years, transferred from Paris after a ‘disagreement’ with his superiors. I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. As Commissaire Dupin delves further and further into the lives of the victim and the suspects, he uncovers a web of secrecy and silence that belies the village’s idyllic image. Further incidents – first a break-in, then another death – only compound the mystery. The manager at the Central Hotel has come downstairs that morning to find ninety-one-year-old owner Pierre-Louis Pennec dead on the restaurant floor.ĭupin and his team identify five principal suspects, including a rising political star, a longtime friend of the victim and a wealthy art historian. The local village of Pont-Aven – a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one other and nothing much seems to happen – is in shock.
“A baffling murder in an idyllic French seaside village, a tangle of family secrets and a puzzling mystery await Commissaire Dupin in this captivating whodunit thriller.Ĭommissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie is dragged from his morning croissants and coffee to the scene of a curious murder.
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