John Brooke

While the Music Lasts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Luc Malarme was one of France's most popular rock stars when he was convicted for the murder of his girlfriend, beloved film star Miri Monette. After nine years in prison, he has just been released and come to live at his country retreat near Saint-Brin - Inspector Aliette Nouvelle's home and base of operations. All Malarme wants is to tend his vineyard and play music. But the citizens of Saint-Brin have neither forgotten nor forgiven his crime against Miri, or, it turns out, some ugly prior local history involving Luc. They let a fallen star know he's no longer welcome in town. Aliette is appalled at her fellow townspeople. Hasn't Malarme paid his debt to society?Someone obviously doesn't think so. The violence begins with the poisoning of the musician's dog, and quickly escalates. Malarme is badly beaten. Then his vineyard is torched and there is an attempt on his life. The shooter misses and the wrong man dies. Or did the shooter miss? Aliette loves Malarme's music. But even she knows the man is trouble.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Signature Editions
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781927426715
• Artikelnr.: 44848828

Autorenporträt

John Brooke became fascinated by criminality and police work listening to the courtroom stories and observations of his father, a long-serving judge. Although he lives in Montreal, John makes frequent trips to France for both pleasure and research. He earns a living as a freelance writer and translator, and has also worked as a film and video editor as well as directed four films on modern dance. His poetry and short stories have been widely published and in 1998 his story "The Finer Points of Apples" won him the Journey Prize. Brooke's first Inspector Aliette Nouvelle mystery, The Voice of Aliette Nouvelle, was published in 1999, followed by All Pure Souls in 2001. He took a break from Aliette with the publication of his novel Last Days of Montreal in 2004, but returned with her in 2011 with Stifling Folds of Love, The Unknown Masterpiece in 2012, Walls of a Mind in 2013, which was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award, and Tropéanos's Gun in 2015.