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Murderous Mistral
Written by Cay Rademacher
Narrated by Antony Ferguson
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
International Dagger Award shortlisted author of The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, delivers a beautifully atmospheric new story with a captivating main character in Murderous Mistral: A Provence Mystery.
Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anti-corruption unit of the French Gendarmerie, was a bit too successful in his investigations. He finds himself removed from Paris to the south of France, far away from political power. Or so it would seem.
The stress is too much for his marriage, and he attempts to manage the break up while trying to settle into his new life in Provence in a 200-year-old, half-ruined house. At the same time, Blanc is tasked with his first murder case: A man with no friends and a lot of enemies, an outsider, was found shot and burned. When a second man dies under suspicious circumstances in the quaint French countryside, the Capitaine from Paris has to dig deep into the hidden, dark undersides of the Provence he never expected to see.
Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anti-corruption unit of the French Gendarmerie, was a bit too successful in his investigations. He finds himself removed from Paris to the south of France, far away from political power. Or so it would seem.
The stress is too much for his marriage, and he attempts to manage the break up while trying to settle into his new life in Provence in a 200-year-old, half-ruined house. At the same time, Blanc is tasked with his first murder case: A man with no friends and a lot of enemies, an outsider, was found shot and burned. When a second man dies under suspicious circumstances in the quaint French countryside, the Capitaine from Paris has to dig deep into the hidden, dark undersides of the Provence he never expected to see.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTantor Media, Inc
TranslatorPeter Millar
Release dateNov 21, 2017
ISBN9781541488984
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Reviews for Murderous Mistral
Rating: 3.5454545568181817 out of 5 stars
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44 ratings6 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting procedural; a Paris detective finds himself reassigned to a rural town in Provence after busting a corrupt minister... Under scrutiny (and with the help) of his former boss's wife, who is le juge d'instruction (examining magistrate) he is able to conduct the inquiry of the murder of a local thug and bring it to close.A very interesting & compelling read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the first volume in the Roger Blanc series. I have already read the fourth volume and have now decided to read this series from the beginning.On the one hand, you get to know all the important people who belong to this series. On the other hand, it shows why Capitaine Blanc was transferred to Provence and how he learns to gain a foothold and make friends.A troublemaker is found burned on the garbage dump. Blanc and his team will soon find out that various regional personalities have something to hide. But who among them is actually the bad guy? More murders have to be solved before they find him.It was a cozy mystery and I will read the other books in this series as well.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I had a very difficult time with this book because of the over use of French terms as well as French words and elaborate names.The main character was not one that I could embrace with any warmth.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There are two things I've taken away from my reading of Murderous Mistral: that when Blanc uncovers a scorpion, his first reaction isn't to stomp on it as most people would, and that, at certain times of the year, Provence smells overwhelmingly of wild thyme. That's not much, is it?For the most part, I did not find either the characters or the mystery to be standouts. The absolute best parts of the book were the descriptions of the countryside and of Blanc's inherited home. I perked up every time he started to do something with that old building. Compared to my almost non-existent interest in the mystery, I would've been much happier if this had been turned into a fixer-upper series on Home and Garden Television.Of course, your mileage may definitely vary, and although I did have problems with the characters and the story, I found Murderous Mistral to be worth reading for the loving descriptions of Provence alone.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed the author's new detective, Roger Blanc, for the most part and his descriptions of the region in France where Roger lives.However, sometimes I felt the writing was overthought and overwritten. The sex scene with Roger and his superior? Why? Definitely just page filler for me and not needed at all. I don't even think it went with the character. A man who wondered if he had kissed or not kissed someone right.A decent read albeit with a lot of unnecessary writing in which I enjoyed learning more French curse words.Thanks to St. Martin's Press and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great read. Slick and understated! Capitaine Roger Blanc is the ideal obsessive investigator, formerly with the Parisian anti-corruption unit. Perhaps a bit too obsessive as after a successful case against personages in high places he finds himself reallocated to Sainte-Françoise-la-Vallée, a hamlet in Provence 500 miles south of Paris.At the same time his marriage collapses. Blanc is forced into making a fresh start. Fortunately he owns a 200 year old dilapidated house that he'd virtually forgotten he'd inherited and had for some unknown reason kept on paying the taxes.His welcoming investigation was that of the body of a man deliberately torched. By all accounts Moréas had been a very nasty person; a belligerent bully who terrorized his neighbours and anyone else who crossed his path, a thief and murderer. A man no-one mourned when he met his grisly ending. Blanc can't help but sniff out corruption, can't help wanting to find the real culprit of Moréas' murder, not just the convenient person his upright, regulation ridden Commandant wants to hang the murder on.Blanc's partners in his new position are nicely underplayed and as the story progresses we see them develop more fully, just as Blanc does.The translation from German to English has the story flowing without a language hitch.This is the first in the series. I look forward to future developments in the life of Roger Blanc.A NetGalley ARC