Blühende Mandelbäume und düstere Verbrechen
Cay Rademacher
SCHWEIGENDES LES BAUX / SILENT LES BAUX
A Provence Crime Novel with Capitaine Roger Blanc
A Crime Novel, ca. 350 pages
Spring 2021
More than 1.1 million copies sold of the Provence-series (12 volumes)
Capitaine Blanc investigates in his 8th case a murder in one of France’s prettiest villages
Blooming almond trees, and terrible crimes …
An art theft and a family secret lead Blanc to an old unsolved case
The 8th volume in the bestselling series!
It’s February in Provence – spring has arrived, and the almond trees are in bloom. And Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleagues are called to Les Baux. In a gloomy valley below the famous ruined castle is Carrières de Lumières, an abandoned quarry which is now used for art exhibitions. During a recent show at the site, a man was mugged and brutally murdered. Blanc soon establishes that the victim was Pat-rick Ripert, a private detective. The wealthy owner of a nearby almond orchard had engaged the detective just a few days earlier, following the theft of an oil painting from his extensive collection. How does it all fit together? After a while Blanc comes across a crime even more brutal than Ripert’s murder. Seven years ago, a whole family was slaughtered in one of the bloodiest incidents in French criminal history. The murderer subsequently disappeared in Provence – and not a trace of him has been seen since. Until now? Are Ripert’s murder and the art theft linked to the half-forgotten crime?
Rights to previous titles sold to: Forlaget Mellemgaard (Danish); St. Martin’s Press (English World); Le Masque (French); Editura Lebada Neagra (Romanian); Ediciones Maeva
(Spanish World);
SCHWEIGENDES LES BAUX / SILENT LES BAUX
A Provence Crime Novel with Capitaine Roger Blanc
A Crime Novel, ca. 350 pages
Spring 2021
More than 1.1 million copies sold of the Provence-series (12 volumes)
Capitaine Blanc investigates in his 8th case a murder in one of France’s prettiest villages
Blooming almond trees, and terrible crimes …
An art theft and a family secret lead Blanc to an old unsolved case
The 8th volume in the bestselling series!
It’s February in Provence – spring has arrived, and the almond trees are in bloom. And Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleagues are called to Les Baux. In a gloomy valley below the famous ruined castle is Carrières de Lumières, an abandoned quarry which is now used for art exhibitions. During a recent show at the site, a man was mugged and brutally murdered. Blanc soon establishes that the victim was Pat-rick Ripert, a private detective. The wealthy owner of a nearby almond orchard had engaged the detective just a few days earlier, following the theft of an oil painting from his extensive collection. How does it all fit together? After a while Blanc comes across a crime even more brutal than Ripert’s murder. Seven years ago, a whole family was slaughtered in one of the bloodiest incidents in French criminal history. The murderer subsequently disappeared in Provence – and not a trace of him has been seen since. Until now? Are Ripert’s murder and the art theft linked to the half-forgotten crime?
Rights to previous titles sold to: Forlaget Mellemgaard (Danish); St. Martin’s Press (English World); Le Masque (French); Editura Lebada Neagra (Romanian); Ediciones Maeva
(Spanish World);
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Cay Rademacher
Cay Rademacher, born in 1965, is a freelance journalist and author. His Provence series includes eleven cases. DuMont also published his trilogy from...
Cay Rademacher, born in 1965, is a freelance journalist and author. His Provence series includes eleven cases. DuMont also published his trilogy from post-war Hamburg: 'Der Trümmermörder' (2011), 'Der Schieber' (2012) and 'Der Fälscher' (2013). He also published the crime novels ‘Ein letzter Sommer in Méjean' (2019), 'Stille Nacht in der Provence' (2020) and ‘Passage nach Maskat (2022). Cay Rademacher lives with his family near Salon-de-Provence in France.