An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery

International bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec's Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team head to Breton paradise in An Island of Suspects.

An August heat wave has all of Brittany in its grasp, and the only chance to cool down for Commissaire Georges Dupin is his daily swim in the ocean. Until one morning his routine is interrupted because a body has been found in the harbor with clear signs of foul play. Patric Provost was from one of the long-established families on the island of Belle-?le, Breton's biggest and most famous island. Provost owned and operated a company dealing in an island delicacy: the famous Belle-?le-sheep. As Bretons say, the sheep season themselves while they're eating, grazing on salty, iodine-rich meadows, full of wild herbs, directly by the ocean. In Dupin's culinary ranking, this lamb comes right behind entrec?te. And that's saying something.

Dupin has barely stepped foot on the utopia-like island before it comes to light that Provost was not well liked. And someone was blackmailing him for one million euros, the deadline for payment the night before Provost's body was caught on the buoy. Everyone on the island has a motive. Any one of them could be the killer.

Author: Jean-Luc Bannalec
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 02/25/2025
Series: Brittany Mystery #10
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.63w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9781250893116


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2024 pg. 70
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2024
Booklist 01/01/2025 pg. 33
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2025

About the Author
Internationally bestselling author JEAN-LUC BANNALEC lives in Germany and the southerly region of the French d?partement of Finist?re. In 2016 he was given the award 'M?c?ne de Bretagne.' Since 2018 he has been an honorary member of the Acad?mie litt?raire de Bretagne. The New York Times has praised of his Brittany mysteries, "Delicious... if this isn't heaven, it's close enough." Bannalec is also the author of Death in Brittany, Murder on Brittany Shores, The Fleur de Sel Murders, The Missing Corpse, The Killing Tide, The Granite Coast Murders, The King Arthur Case, The Body By the Sea (named one of Washington Post's "Ten Best Mystery Novels of the Year"), and Death of a Master Chef.