Martin Walker has 12 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 57 ratings. The most-rated is A Taste for Vengeance.
The Dark Vineyard
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A prolific journalist, Martin Walker has crafted a mystery series that deftly blends the stylings of Peter Mayle and Alexander McCall Smith. Chief Bruno Courreges loves life in his small French village. One day his idyll is disturbed when a local research station for genetically modified crops is burned down. An enclave of environmentalists seems to be the most likely culprit, but soon Bruno uncovers evidence that makes the case infinitely more complicated.
©2009 Walker and Watson, Ltd. (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
A Taste for Vengeance
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A missing woman, a shocking pregnancy, a dash of international intrigue, and a bottle or two of good Bergerac: It's another case for Bruno, Chief of Police. When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on Bruno for help. Monica Felder is nowhere to be found, and her husband, a retired British major, is unreachable. And not long after Bruno discovers that Monica was traveling with a mysterious Irishman (her lover?), the two turn up dead. The Irishman's background in intelligence and his connection to Monica's husband only raise more questions for Bruno. Was she running away? How much does her husband really know? What's the real story behind a scandal buried in the threesome's military past? Meanwhile, the star of the girls' rugby team, a favorite of Bruno's, is pregnant, putting at risk her chances of being named to the French national squad. Bruno's search for the truth in both cases leads him to places he hadn't intended to go - but, as ever, he and his friends take time to savor the natural delights of the Dordogne. Sante!
©2018 Walker and Watson, Ltd. (P)2018 Recorded Books
Death Undercover
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Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before. But Bruno's sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn't see this investigation as a priority - there are bigger issues at stake. Bruno has other ideas. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami turns up at a French army base in Afghanistan hoping to get home to St Denis. One of Bruno's old army comrades helps to smuggle Sami back to France, but the FBI aren't far behind. Then an American woman appears in St Denis with a warrant for Sami's extradition. Bruno must unravel these multiple mysteries, amidst pressure from his bosses, and find his own way to protect his town and its people.
©2014 Martin Walker (P)2014 WF Howes Ltd
The Templars' Last Secret
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Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero - and favorite gourmand - to connect the tangled threads of past and present. When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near St. Denis, Bruno suspects a connection to the great ruin that stands on the cliff above: the Chateau de Commarque, a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold that, along with the labyrinth of prehistoric caves beneath it, continues to draw the interest of scholars. With the help of Amelie, a young newcomer to the Dordogne, Bruno learns that the dead woman was an archaeologist searching for a religious artifact of incredible importance, the discovery of which could have dramatic repercussions throughout the Middle East - not to mention in St. Denis. And the woman's ties to Islamic terrorists can only heighten the pressure on Bruno to unravel the centuries-old mystery. Meanwhile, an old flame of Bruno's is assigned to work with him on the case, and the two find time, naturellement, to enjoy the supreme pleasures of the wine, food, and beauty of the Dordogne.
©2017 Walker and Watson Ltd. (P)2017 Recorded Books
Black Diamond
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Best-selling author Martin Walker’s previous two novels starring Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges became hits with fans and critics around the globe. In this thrilling third mystery, Bruno has his hands full with trouble in the truffle trade in St. Denis’ marketplace. And when a friend is murdered, things really start heating up.
©2010 Walker and Watson Ltd (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
The Body in the Castle Well
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An aging art scholar and a visiting student, haunting echoes of France's colonialist past, and a delicious navarin of lamb - Bruno is back, and his latest case leads him from the Renaissance to the French Resistance and beyond by way of a corpse at the bottom of a well. When Claudia, a young American, turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle in Bruno's jurisdiction, her death is assumed to be an accident related to opioid use. But her doctor persuades Bruno that things may not be so simple. Thus begins an investigation that leads Bruno to Monsieur de Bourdeille, the scholar with whom the girl had been studying, and then through that man's past. He is a renowned art historian who became extraordinarily wealthy through the sale of paintings that may have been falsely attributed - or so Claudia suggested shortly before her death. In his younger days, Bourdeille had aided the Resistance and been arrested by a Vichy policeman whose own life story also becomes inexorably entangled with the case. Also in the mix is a young falconer who works at the Chateau des Milandes, the former home of fabled jazz singer Josephine Baker. In the end, of course, Bruno will tie all the loose threads together and see that justice is served - along with a generous helping of his signature Perigordian cuisine.
©2019 Walker and Watson Ltd (P)2019 Recorded Books
The Resistance Man
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Bruno Courrèges - provincial French police chief extraordinaire - is back in another delectable tale of mystery and suspense that unfolds in the gastronomically ravishing Dordogne.
©2013 Walker and Watson PLC (P)2014 Recorded Books
The Resistance Man
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In rural Dordogne, Bruno, Chief of Police, knows that WW2 casts the longest shadow. Rare bank notes are found, linking to the famous Neuvic train robbery of 1944 in the sixth internationally best-selling case for France's favourite cop. In the small town of St Denis, Bruno, can't get a moment's rest. Some rare bank notes have come to light that may have links to the legendary Neuvic train robbery in 1944. The investigation is fraught with issues. Bruno is also dealing with a wave of local burglaries, which have brought his old flame, Isabelle - and their complicated history - back to the town. Worse is to come. Tasked with piecing together these past crimes, Bruno now finds he has the more pressing matter of a body on his hands. He must now trace the links between past and present to restore peace in his beloved town of St Denis.
©2013 Walker and Watson Ltd (P)2014 WF Howes Ltd
The Shooting at Chateau Rock
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When a local's troubling death is linked to a Russian oligarch and his multinational conglomerate, Bruno faces one of his toughest cases yet, one that brings together a French notary and a rock star - and, of course, Bergerac red and white. It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a Périgordian sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited, and their father's estate sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer never gets his life of luxury - he dies before moving in. Was it a natural death? Was there foul play? Bruno begins the investigation that leads him to several shadowy insurance companies owned by a Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport. The companies are based in Cyprus, Malta, and Luxembourg, but Bruno finds a weak spot in France: the Russian's France-based notaire and insurance agent. As Bruno is pursuing this lead, the oligarch's daughter turns up in the Périgord, and complications ensue, eventually bringing the action to the château of an aging rock star. But, as ever, Bruno makes time for lunch amid it all.
©2020 Walker and Watson Ltd. (P)2020 Recorded Books
Bruno and the Carol Singers
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Internationally best-selling author Martin Walker delights audiences with his holiday-themed mystery, Bruno and the Carol Singers. It's Christmastime in the tiny French village of St. Denis, and Police Chief Bruno Courrèges is busy playing Père Noël for the children. But when money raised for charity goes missing, Bruno trades in his bag of toys for his badge and sets out to find the thief.
©2012 Walker and Watson PLC (P)2021 Recorded Books
The Caves of Perigord
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Walker's richly interwoven novel opens with the arrival of a mysterious package for a young American woman working in a London auction house. Brought by a British officer, it contains a 17,000-year-old fragment of a cave painting left to him by his father, a former World War II hero. The fragment, significant and stunning in itself, is also the key to the existence of an unknown cave that may be more important in the history of art and human creation than the world-famous one at Lascaux. It triggers a storm of publicity and commands the attention of the French authorities all the way up to the President of the Republic, who seems to know more about the painting's origins than anyone else... As the young American woman, the British officer, and a French government art historian explore the ancient province of Perigord to determine the painting's origins, their search serves as backdrop for three compelling stories.
©2002 Martin Walker (P)2019 Tantor
Stille Nacht - Nicht nur eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
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Zufälle klingen manchmal märchenhaft. Kaum zu glauben! Ganz unwahrscheinlich! Das glaube ich nicht! Und doch gibt es sie immer wieder - diese unglaublichen Zufälle. Martin Walker steuert in seiner Kurzgeschichte "Stille Nacht. Nicht nur eine Weihnachtsgeschichte" einen solchen unwahrscheinlichen Zufall an. Die Welt ist klein. Simon, Kriegsreporter, verabschiedet sich von seiner Frau Lucia. Er wird in die Kriegsgebiete in den Nahen Osten reisen. Sie ist allein, wie schon so oft. Sie versucht sich auf die Arbeit zu konzentrieren. Bei großer sommerlicher Hitze sitzt sie zu Hause und entwickelt eine Weihnachtsdeko für den Concept Store Mona Mia. Das Klingeln an der Wohnungstür reißt sie aus ihrer Arbeit. Mit einem Vorwort von Gerwig Epkes. Martin Walker kommt aus Schottland und lebt mit seiner Familie im südfranzösischen Perigord. Und er hat als Historiker, Schriftsteller und Journalist viel erlebt: Martin Walker arbeitete 25 Jahre für die britische Zeitung "The Guardian", erlebte in Moskau Glasnost und Perestoika, schrieb eine vielbeachtete Clinton-Biografie und ist heute einer der maßgeblichen Leute einer Denkfabrik in Washington. Ansonsten veröffentlicht Walker bei Diogenes seine Bruno-Kriminalromane, genießt guten Wein und gutes Essen.
©2016 Dörlemann Verlag, Zürich (P)2017 SWR