An Island of Suspects

Brittany Mystery Series, Book 10

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

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-Île, Breton's biggest and most famous island. Provost owned and operated a company dealing in an island delicacy: the famous Belle-Île-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 entrecôte. 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.

©2021 Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch; translation copyright 2025 by Jamie Lee Searle (P)2025 Tantor Media

This Series Keeps Getting Better

Though I have a love for murder mysteries in beautiful locations, I usually feel, that even with the best of them, they become repetitive after a while. In this case, I find the stories get better and the characters get richer.. The culture of Brittany becomes a stronger part of the story and I think that is done very well here. Though I have no way of knowing if the cultural perspective is at all accurate - never have been there, These stories do compel me to go though!