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I know, I know, I'm supposed to be catching up on Davitt Award nominee books (I've got a few left to go), but I got distracted. It happens.
From the Blurb:
It's market day in St Denis, a small town in the Perigord region of south-west France. The locals are on the alert because inspectors are about to make a 'surprise visit', hoping to enforce the unpopular and bureaucratic EU hygiene rules. But for Captain Bruno Courreges, St Denis' Chief of Police, this particular market day turns into something far more serious.
Opening Lines:
On a bright May morning, so early that the last of the mist was still lingering lower over the great bend in the river, a white van drew to a halt on the ridge over the small French town.