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Amante del buen café y la buena cocina, que ha sido desterrado de París y enviado a la costa Bretona, al pequeño pueblo de Concarneau.Dupín, investigador tenaz e independiente, cuenta con la ayuda de los inspectores Labat y Le Ber y con su eficaz secretaria Nolwenn, capaz de realizar los trámites más enrevesados en un tiempo record.Es una novela policíaca de corte clásico, con una trama sencilla y donde la investigación deja un pequeño hueco para el arte. Además, cuenta con unas buenas descripciones de los paisajes de la costa Bretona.Una novela entretenida y de fácil lectura.779 reviews225 followersJune 29, 2014If you’re keen to discover some new French crime fiction, Jean-Luc Bannalec is a real find. Death In Pont-Aven introduces us to Commissaire Dupin, a cantankerous Parisian caffeine junkie, who polices the small Breton village of Pont-Aven, a sleepy community near the sea. Everyone knows everyone else and nothing much seems to happen. However, one morning he is dragged from his coffee and croissant to the scene of a murder at the local Central Hotel. The housekeeper has discovered the 91-year-old manager and owner Pierre-Louis Pennec dead on the restaurant floor.The very occurrence of such a murder in such a place sends both Dupin and the local community into a state of shock and surprise. However, soon Dupin and his team come up with five viable suspects, including a rising political star, a wealthy art historian, and a long-time friend of the dead man. A mysterious break-in and then another suspicious death only deepen the mystery and as Dupin delves deeper into the lives of the victims and the suspects, he uncovers a web of secrecy, greed and silence at odds with the idyllic surrounds of Pont-Aven.Bannalec has produced an incredibly character-driven piece, in common with his fellow French and Italian contemporaries. The curmudgeonly and self-deprecating Dupin is the real driving force throughout the book with his idiosyncratic nature, that are endlessly entertaining to the reader, and a source of deep frustration to his more straight-laced and by-the-book colleagues. Everyone knows the tropes of fictional police detectives, and Dupin wryly bemoans the absence of drug dependency, depression, neuroses and broken marriages in his own life. However, with his sharp tongue, cynical nature and a surprising fondness for penguins – yes, penguins! – he proves himself a colourful and interesting character throughout.Obviously with the stark contrast between Dupin sophisticated backround in Paris, and the very unique and fiercely independent spirit of the Bretons, there is ample opportunity for some earthy humour. Likewise, Bannalec captures perfectly the claustrophobic feel of this small town, but also paints a majestic picture of the overlapping communities both rural and shore-dwelling, and the contrasting lives and

I didn’t know much about Gauguin and the École de Pont Aven, so it’s always nice to learn some historic facts while reading for fun.The setting was quite idyllic and I couldn’t help to google all the picturesque villages that were mentioned. Now I need to visit Brittany ASAP!!Charming mystery that makes a good starting point for this series.930 reviews227 followersJune 19, 2023“Dupin inspirò profondamente. Quella sera al mare aveva un odore intenso: sale, alghe, iodio. Respirare quell’aria faceva apparire tutto diverso.”Un commissario “grande e grosso, robusto, massiccio” che ricorda un po’ la stazza del celebre Maigret -il padre letterario di tutti i commissari francesi- ma anche goffo e impacciato, al punto che “nessuno metteva mai in conto la rapidità e la fine precisione delle quali era insospettabilmente capace.”Parigino di origine, da qualche anno è stato trasferito a Concarneau, perla della Bretagna, e ormai è completamente immerso nell’humus locale; riferimento costante è la sua perspicace segretaria, Nolween, depositaria dei segreti di un luogo incantevole e di un popolo orgoglioso delle sue radici ma spesso rude e ostico.Il suo primo caso è l’inspiegabile omicidio di un noto albergatore di 92 anni, custode delle tradizioni di famiglia e amante dell’arte. Siamo nell’ameno villaggio di Pont-Aven, diventato celebre perché a fine Ottocento vi arrivò Gauguin che inventò un nuovo stile e inaugurò una scuola di pittura. L’hotel, fondato da Marie Jeanne Pennec, la nonna della vittima, aveva intercettato i segni del tempo e aveva agevolato in tutti i modi l’atelier del celebre pittore. Ma cosa c’entra tutto questo con l’eliminazione fisica di un vecchio albergatore onesto e inoffensivo ?Sbrogliare la matassa non sarà compito facile per il nostro commissario che porterà avanti la sua indagine arrovellandosi sulle testimonianze dei familiari e degli amici del defunto Pierre-Louis Pennec.“In tutti i casi, a un certo punto venivano a galla i primi racconti veri; fino ad allora, tutti cercavano di creare superfici scivolose, opache, per non lasciar trapelare nulla delle storie reali. E tutti avevano le loro ragioni per farlo, non solamente i colpevoli.”Grande protagonista il paesaggio bretone, con la bellezza e la forza di una natura prorompente e indomita.P.s. È sicuramente imperfetto, ma a me è piaciuto. Perciò continuo…3/42,254 reviews247 followersAugust 21, 2015i guess like all bestsellers, inherently? they appeal to low level reading, and this being an international bestseller, it is universally poor plot, characters, sense of place? anyway, a police procedural set in small towns on coast of nw france...our detective is a renegade but gets down to business in his own way.for better atmospherics, local scenes, and deeper thinkers in detection i like camilleri's books set in sicily Game of Mirrors ; dibdin's in naples Game of Mirrors ; mcilvanney in glasgow

Book series, the Germans are quite apt in filming mysteries of krimis as they like to call them.2020 cozy-mystery mystery564 reviewsJanuary 16, 2024Oldukça hoş bir polisiye hikayesi. Bannalec' den okuduğum ilk eser amma anlatımı akıcı sürükleyici ve ilerde yazarın eserlerini bulursam mutlaka devam ederim. İçinde iki cinayet işlenmiş bir hikaye olsada bana çok sevimli vahşetden uzak gelmesi de ilginç! Komiser Dupin her okuyucuyu kendine bağlar gibi geliyor.crime detective european-literature 3,725 reviews269 followersJuly 30, 2018More like 4.5 stars for meI was fortunate in waiting for available copy of this book that I could also check out the second of this series at the same time. The third I was able to place on hold. I do love finding a new and very interesting police investigator (Commissaire Dupin) who does his own thing in his own way in his own time. A fourth book in the series will come out in Spring 2019. There is also a German television series already made and can be viewed on you tube. How's your German? The author is German, a surprise to me after I googled the pseudonym. He apparently lives part time in Brittany as well as Germany (or so says the internet).Having read the book I now want to travel asap to Brittany. The scenery as well as the villages and even the food scene are described wonderfully in this book. This is a thinking policeman who likes/needs to walk to allow the puzzle pieces to fit together in his analysis. He is given so little information arriving on the scene of a murder in a hotel dining room. It is the body of a 91-year old hotelier, brutally stabbed. His methods include locking up the scene of the crime and keeping it intact for as long as he wishes while interviews and fact gathering proceeds.Very rich art history in the area plays a major role in this crime. Gauguin's work and love of the people and the area are well known. I must admit to loving his depiction of Breton girls in their white bonnets and have a print recently purchased that needs framing. The Chicago Art Institute recently held a rich exhibition of Gauguin's varied works.So...we have Brittany, scenes of rivers and sea, quaint villages, art history and greed to uncover. Excellent read!sample from book to give you idea of descriptive text:"The landscape became more and more enchanting as the narrow little streets at the edge of Pont-Aven gave way to thick woodland. The trees were dripping with mistletoe and ivy, overgrown and moss-covered. Some of the trees here had entwined as they grew, forming a long dark green tunnel. Now and then the Aven shimmered between the trees on the

Contemporary 596 reviews18 followersFebruary 10, 2021Neko nevaru darīt, patīk franču krimiķi:) un ja vēl gleznotāji, fantastiski Bretaņas apraksti un dīvains izmeklētājs (reālajā dzīvē kaitinātu ļoti), mmmmm! Tāpēc būšu neobjektīva.. Cerams, būs arī pārējās sērijas grāmatas. seerijas382 reviews36 followersOctober 29, 2016There's something to be said about writing that is so wonderfully descriptive that it can transport its readers to a place they may never have visited before. Such is the case with "Death in Brittany," the first in a series featuring a caffeine-driven, food-loving Commissaire Georges Dupin, a Parisian transplant who's been living and working cases in Brittany for three years and will forever be considered an outsider.Dupin has unusual investigative methods, but in the end, they get their criminal(s). The story unfolds when a 91-year-old hotelier is found dead in his family establishment, the victim of murder. Just who would want to kill this beloved man and pillar of the community? No one can imagine a perpetrator or discern any notable change in the pattern of the hotelier's most recent behavior.However, not surprisingly, not everyone in the closed community of Pont-Aven is willing to spill the secrets of the hotel nor its family dynasty. Yet, there's an urgency to solve the crime, as tourist season is about to get under way in this seaside community, where Parisians flock for vacation, following in the footsteps of the 19th century artists of the Pont-Aven School of Art, a group that featured such luminaries as Gaugin.Among the possible suspects are the man's son and daughter-in-law, the local museum head and a Parisian museum curator, the man's estranged half-brother (an up and coming politician), and various other hotel staff members, friends, and contacts. In other words, everyone and no one. When a thief breaks into the crime scene at the hotel after the hotelier has been murdered, it's clear that there's more to the story than meets the eye.Author Jean-Luc Bannalec (the pseudonym for a German writer) keeps readers guessing about the perpetrator, especially when a second body is found just days after the initial murder. The ever-changing list of suspects may alter as readers make their way through this novel and rush to the end. However, some of the most enjoyable aspects of the mystery are descriptions of local sites, history, and atmosphere, and the book is best enjoyed if readers can pace themselves as they learn to stop and smell the sea air along the way.Review first appeared on ReviewingtheEvidence.com.346 reviews20 followersOctober 2, 2017"Бретонски афери" на Жан-Люк Баналек е приятно и непретенциозно крими-четиво, носещо атмосферата на Бретан, Понт-Авен и пост-импресионизма и очевидно стремящо се да наподоби духа на разследванията на Мегре. Първоначалната ми изненада, че толкова френско звучаща книга е преведена от

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