DEVIL'S CAVE

We are invited to raise a glass and turn the page of another novel in the series with the enchanting backdrop of France's pastoral heartland with a cast of local characters as vibrant as their surroundings for every literary gourmand. Mystery, food and wine in the French province of the Dordogne, it is Spring in St Denis. The village choir is preparing for its Easter concert, the wild flowers are blooming, and among the lazy whorls of the river, a dead woman is found floating in a boat. It?s another case for Bruno, the town?s cherished Chief of Police. With the discovery of sinister markings and black candles near the body, it seems to him that the occult might be involved. As questions mount regarding a troubled real estate proposal in the region, a suspicious, violent death made to look accidental, and the sudden reappearance of a politically controversial elderly countess, Bruno and his colleagues and friends are drawn ever closer to a climactic showdown in the Gouffre de Colombac, the place locals call the Devil's Cave. 392pp, paperback.