Jacquot and the Waterman
10 best books like Jacquot and the Waterman (Martin O'Brien): Cecilia, Blacklands, The Devil's Cave, The Resistance Man, Death in a Strange Country, The Patriarch, The Templars' Last Secret, A Taste for Vengeance, The Crowded Grave, The Weight of Silence
| Author | Fanny Burney |
| ISBN | 0192839098 |
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in...
| Author | Belinda Bauer |
| ISBN | 1439149445 |
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial...
| Author | Martin Walker |
| ISBN | 0385349521 |
Mystery, food, and wine in the French province of Dordogne—the latest offering from Martin Walker, featuring Benoît “Bruno” Courrèges.
It’s spring in St. Denis. The village choir is preparing for its Easter concert, the wildflowers are blooming, and among the lazy whorls of...
| Author | Martin Walker |
| ISBN | 0385349548 |
Bruno Courrèges—provincial French police chief extraordinaire—is back in another delectable tale of mystery and suspense that unfolds in the gastronomically ravishing Dordogne.
A veteran of the Resistance dies, and among his possessions are documents that connect him to a notorious...
Death in a Strange Country
| Author | Donna Leon |
| ISBN | 0143034820 |
Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim’s...
| Author | Martin Walker |
| ISBN | 0385354177 |
A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death - it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne for police chief Bruno. When Bruno is invited to the lavish birthday celebration of World War II flying ace and national icon Marco "the Patriarch" Desaix, it's the fulfillment of a boyhood dream. But...
The Templars' Last Secret
Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present.
When a woman's body is found at...
| Author | Martin Walker |
| ISBN | 0525519963 |
When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on Bruno for help. Monica Felder is nowhere to be found, and her husband, a retired British major, is unreachable. And not long after Bruno...
| Author | Martin Walker |
| ISBN | 1849163219 |
Like the previous books in this series, a number of serious international issues are combined with Bruno's personal dramas supported by a cast of colorful characters to let it all work out in the end. The actions and events are hilarious, serious, sad and happy.
Three major issues hit St Denis...
A heart-pounding novel of unspeakable crimes and unforgivable sins from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Rain.
Homicide detective Nicole Foster has finally balanced an unsteady life and is anxious for a second chance. There’s no better place to start over than at the beginning—back...
| Author | Martin Walker |
| ISBN | 1101946784 |
A pair of murders, a romance and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value—Bruno, chief of police, is busy in another mystery set in the beautiful Dordogne
At the annual fête in St. Denis, Bruno’s biggest worry is surviving as a last-minute replacement navigator...
| Author | Colm Tóibín |
| ISBN | 1451688385 |
Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.
In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years...
| Author | Anthony Quinn |
| ISBN | 0224099582 |
On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a woman accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina Land, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she’s not supposed to be at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she may...
| Author | Betty Rowlands |
| ISBN | 0340826800 |
While Melissa’s mother is staying at a retirement home, the dog of one of the residents is poisoned and soon after, the owner suffers the same fate.
Is it just a case of food poisoning or is there someone with a grudge against the victim?
Who is guilty? What is the motive behind the murder?...
| Author | Valerio Varesi |
| ISBN | 8876849955 |
Il cadavere carbonizzato di una giovane immigrata rumena e la morte misteriosa di un connazionale sono il punto di partenza per quest'ultima indagine del commissario Soneri. La storia è di quelle sordide: lei, bella e sensuale, per sopravvivere frequentava un giro di ricchi parmensi, ma soprattutto...
| Author | Peter Robinson |
| ISBN | 0380794764 |
New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson brings us a tantalizing tale of suspense in this classic Inspector Banks thriller.
In the long shadows of an alley a young man is murdered by an unknown assailant. The shattering echoes of his death will be felt throughout...
Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before.
But Bruno’s sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn’t see this investigation as a...
Montbel (Jacques Forêt #3)
A clear-cut case?
A re-examination of a closed police case brings investigator, Jacques Forêt, up against an old adversary. After the murder of a key witness, Jacques finds himself, and his team, being pursued.
When a vital piece of evidence throws a completely different light...
