I enjoy the main character who dominates the books with his quirks and investigating techniques, but often feel like I'm spending all my time with an egomaniac and wonder why. I enjoy reading about the industry that is the setting for the murders. I always love the descriptions of the settings and the mythology of the places. I have read all the books in this series and continue to have such mixed feelings. All in all just less than a single square kilometer in area. During real storms gigantic waves sweep over the island, putting it totally underwater. Two and a half kilometers long and in some places just twenty-five meters wide, mostly flat, barely two meters above water level. A tiny dot of rocky land in the wide oceans, shaped like some long-tailed mythical creature in the face of the elemental forces of the Atlantic. "Brittany was naturally blessed with enthralling light, but at this time of year it became magical." If my "virus isolation" leaves me wanting, I just might read the book again before returning to library. The bonus for me included many wonderful descriptions of the area. I do hope he will settle down to normal next book! Because of the compression of much happening in short period the reader is also pushed to digest quickly rather than savor the standard witticisms and observations whilst doing a walkabout that usually sally forth from Dupin. It is quite a mad rush to find the person who brought about these murders as Dupin's mother commands that her son and Claire must be in Paris at the end of the two days for her grand 75th birthday celebration. The investigation covers smugglers and fishermen who disregard laws meant to keep dolphins safe as well as buried treasure in the form of a very large cross found by the women. It won't be long before the dead woman's friend, another female, is found dead. Dupin is awakened after having had almost no sleep in the aftermath of celebrating the summer solstice with Claire. We start with the discovery of a body of a female stuffed in a fish refuse barrel after having her throat slit sometime in the night. The seafood, though- stellar, of course! Coffee not always. Dupin quickly realizes this may be his most difficult and confounding case yet, with links to celtic myths, a sand theft operation, and mysterious ancient druid cults.3.5 stars for the beautiful descriptions of settings, but the division of this book into Day One and Day Two is challenging for the reader with so many characters, boats, islands and uncooperative witnesses. A little while later, he receives a phone call from the mystical hills of Monts d'Arree, where legends of fairies and the devil abound: another unidentified body has turned up. By the time Commissaire Dupin arrives at the scene, the body has disappeared. Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. It's picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany. Booklist on Murder on Brittany Shores The Missing Corpse is internationally bestselling author, Jean-Luc Bannalec's fourth novel in the Commissaire Dupin series. Beaton on Death in Brittany Very satisfying.along the lines of Martin Walker's novels set in Dordogne, or M.L.
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