Death in Brittany

[DEBUT] Two years and seven months ago, Commissaire Georges Dupin was reassigned from Paris to Concarneau, Brittany, owing to "certain disputes" with colleagues. Dupin must give up his morning routine of croissant and coffee to travel to the neighboring village of Pont-Aven to investigate the murder of 91-year-old hotelier Pierre-Louis Pennec. It's the height of the tourist season, which adds to the pressure for Dupin to solve the case as quickly as possible. His methods irritate his superiors and mystify his team. Among his suspects are an area politician, a longtime friend of the victim, and a local art historian. When a second death occurs and a painting disappears from Pennec's hotel, Dupin must re-create Pennec's last days in order to uncover the secret long kept by his friends and family. Aiding Dupin in this case is art historian Marie Cassel from the University of Bretagne Occidentale.