By Paul Carrier
For a bucolic community nestled in the Périgord region of southwestern France, the fictional town of St. Denis attracts more than its share of evildoers and dastardly deeds.
But Benoît "Bruno" Courrèges, a decorated former soldier and chief of the village’s one-man police force, is quite capable of coping with such threats with a little help from his friends, when he isn’t whipping up gourmet meals, feeding his chickens, tending his garden, lamenting his bachelorhood or making the rounds with his trusty basset hound Balzac.
In The Templars’ Last Secret, the 10th book in Martin Walker’s mystery series, murder and torture prove to be preludes to a terrorist attack. Subplots involving the discovery of a medieval tomb in a sealed cave beneath the ruins of an ancient chateau, and a return visit by one of Bruno’s former lovers, help lighten the mood.
But be forewarned. You should never read a Bruno novel, including this one, on an empty stomach; the meals described therein are just too mouthwatering.
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