I finished another one last night.
Death in Britanny by Jean-Luc Bannalec. Jean-Luc Bannalec is a penname; and Bannalec happens to be a small town in Brittany (see map below). This was originally written in German and is the first in a series about Commissaire Dupin. Dupin is was recently relocated from Paris to Brittany. In this first case, he is called in to investigate the murder of a local hotel owner. There is also question of the theft of unknown painting by Gauguin that had been hanging in the hotel for years.
The mystery was a little slow at first but then it picked up about halfway through. As a Francophile, I enjoyed the descriptions of Brittany: Concarneau and Pont-Aven. Now for sure I will have to go there. And I will check out the next book in the Commissaire Dupin Series.
Gaughin's Le Mouin David de Pont-Aven (1894)
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