The town was the home of an artist colony that included Gauguin and the history is still important to the town.ĭupin might have been there for three years, but he’s still definitely an outsider according to the locals. I didn’t warm up to him, but I was captured by the descriptions of the scenery, the art history and the twisty plot.īannalec totally captures the Brittany town of Port-Aven, the landscapes and citizens. And he is a prickly sort - brash, intelligent, insistent that things be done exactly his way. It’s a police procedural with Commissaire Georges Dupin, a former Parisienne detective who’s been sent up to Brittany after a disagreement with his bosses. So Death in Brittany was a natural for me to try.
JASMINE DUPIN SERIES
I love mystery series that take me to different locations. Death in Pont-Aven is a spellbinding, subtle and smart crime novel, peppered with cryptic humour and surprising twists. It is a book so atmospheric readers will immediately want to wander through the village’s narrow alleyways, breathe in the Atlantic air and savour Brittany’s seaside specialty dishes. 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.Ī summer hit in its original German, Death in Pont-Aven introduces readers to the enigmatic Commissaire Dupin, an idiosyncratic penguin lover and Parisian-born caffeine junkie whose unique methods of detection raise more than a few eyebrows. Further incidents – first a break-in, then another mysterious death – muddy the waters yet more. Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team take on the investigation and narrow the list of suspects down to five people, including a rising political star, a longtime friend of the victim and a wealthy art historian. At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found murdered.
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