| Record Number |
734219 |
| ISBN |
9780307454713 (paperback) |
| 0307454711 (paperback) |
| 9781849161855 (paperback) |
| Author |
Walker, Martin, 1947 January 23- author. |
| Title |
The dark vineyard / Martin Walker. |
| Edition |
First Vintage Books edition |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Vintage Books, 2011. |
| Pagination etc. |
303, 13 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Bruno, Chief of Police 2 |
| Contents note |
"A mystery of the French countryside"--Cover. |
| Includes an excerpt from the author's Black diamond (pages 1-13). |
| Summary Note |
When a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment among the villagers, the idyllic town--where Benoit Bruno Courreges is the town's only policeman--finds itself the center of an intense drama, with suspicious fires at the agricultural research station that is working on genetically-modified crops. Two young men--Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune--become rivals for the affections of Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Quebecoise student of wine. Events grow ever darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far from those of the past. |
| Subject |
Police chiefs -- France -- Fiction |
| Arson investigation -- Fiction |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Environmentalists -- Fiction |
| Vintners -- Fiction |
| Country life -- France -- Fiction |
| Dordogne (France) -- Fiction |
| Mystery fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F WALK |
