Bruno, Chief of Police Books in Order

A new lodger at Bruno’s friend Pamela’s riding school is found murdered on the patio, and while Bruno steps back for a younger colleague to lead the case, buried connections soon drag him into an investigation that threatens friendships, careers and village calm.

Bruno finds a real-estate agent dead in her car with an apparent suicide note, but as he delivers her final messages and a smear campaign suddenly targets him, he suspects a staged death and hunts for who is trying to destroy both Monique and his own reputation.

On a country estate near St. Denis, a wartime grave containing two German women and an Italian submarine officer is discovered, and Bruno teams up with an American archaeologist to unravel what happened—and why someone may still want the past buried.

During a lavish reenactment of a medieval battle in Sarlat, a senior French intelligence official acting in the play is stabbed, and Bruno’s protection duty for his family and tech-industry friends leads him into a web of espionage and global chip-making rivalries.

When a local folk band’s pro-Catalan protest song goes viral and is banned in Spain, extremist nationalists issue threats; a sniper’s bullet is found nearby, and Bruno must coordinate with French and Spanish authorities while protecting his friends and their music.

This collection gathers Bruno’s shorter adventures, from tracking a parole-breaking father at Christmas to solving petty sabotage and oyster thefts, offering bite-sized mysteries steeped in village quarrels, small acts of kindness and mouthwatering Périgord cooking.

A thirty-year-old murder resurfaces when a skull in a police storeroom is reconstructed, sending Bruno into the past of a reclusive winemaker with alleged ties to East German intelligence, even as a brutal drought and wildfires threaten his beloved countryside.

After a modest sheep farmer dies and his children discover he secretly signed away their inheritance for a luxury retirement home, Bruno suspects foul play that leads to shell companies, a Russian oligarch, and a rock star’s glamorous family holidaying at Château Rock.

Asked to help investigate oyster thefts on the Bay of Arcachon, Bruno is glad of an excuse to work again with his former colleague Isabelle, but their routine surveillance turns risky when they stumble onto smugglers who see the coast as easy cover.

When Claudia, an American art student, is found dead in a castle well near St. Denis, Bruno at first suspects an overdose, but soon uncovers tangled connections between a famous art historian, looted paintings, Resistance history and jealousies that turned deadly.

Planning a surprise birthday lunch for his friend Florence, Bruno forages nettles and herbs, unearths a prehistoric hand axe and enlists half the village, turning a simple celebration into a warm portrait of friendship, food and shared history in St. Denis.

A Senegalese coffee seller and his nephew start offering rich hot chocolate and espresso at the St. Denis market, provoking a furious response from established cafés, and Bruno must cool a simmering feud about immigration, fairness and competition before it boils over.

A British woman vanishes on her way to a cooking vacation and is later found murdered alongside an Irish ex-soldier, drawing Bruno into a case that stretches from Dordogne guesthouses to old conflicts in Iraq and Northern Ireland, even as he mentors young officers.

When a woman falls to her death below the ruined Templar fortress of Commarque, Bruno discovers she was an archaeologist chasing a mysterious relic, and her research may link medieval legends, extremist plots and modern terrorism uncomfortably close to home.

A classic-car rally and an obsessive hunt for a legendary lost Bugatti bring wealthy outsiders and old grudges to St. Denis; when a local scholar dies and greed turns lethal, Bruno must steer between racing enthusiasts and killers on and off the road.

Invited to a lavish birthday party for his boyhood hero, legendary pilot Marco “the Patriarch” Desaix, Bruno is soon investigating a suspicious death on the estate, uncovering Cold War secrets, family rivalries and the dangerous legacy of old alliances.

A mutilated body in the woods, a murdered undercover cop and the return of an autistic young man from Afghanistan pull Bruno into a chilling case involving jihadist networks, intelligence agencies and the lingering scars of World War II in rural France.

At the bustling St. Denis market, a widowed stallholder falls for a Swiss tourist whose baking delights the town, but his possessive sister will do anything to break them up, leaving Bruno to find a gentle way to restore peace—and love.

The death of an elderly Resistance hero, a break-in at a former British spy’s house and the murder of an antiques dealer seem unrelated, but Bruno slowly links them to a legendary wartime train robbery and passions that never really faded.

After a naked woman is found dead drifting down the Dordogne in a boat ringed with black candles, rumors of satanic rites swirl around St. Denis, and Bruno must untangle occult theatrics, real-estate deals and old feuds before evil spreads from the Devil’s Cave.

As Christmas brings frost and carols to St. Denis, Bruno is busy playing Father Christmas and organizing festivities until charity funds go missing, and he has to rely on community spirit and a few quiet interviews to save the holiday.

An archaeological dig for Neanderthal remains turns grim when a modern corpse with a bullet in its skull is unearthed, forcing Bruno to juggle a meddling magistrate, animal-rights protests and a high-level Franco-Spanish summit while hunting a killer.

Attacks on Vietnamese traders, an arson fire at an Asian restaurant and counterfeit Chinese truffles threaten the prized Dordogne truffle trade, drawing Bruno into a murder case that reaches from local hunting parties to the shadows of intelligence work.

When suspicious fires hit a research station testing genetically modified vines and a local winemaker dies, Bruno must navigate environmental protests, corporate schemes and village loyalties to uncover who is willing to burn the valley’s future for profit.

Meet Bruno Courrèges, the easygoing chief of police in the French village of St. Denis, whose quiet life of markets, rugby and cooking is upended when an elderly North African veteran is murdered and long-buried wartime secrets surface.