Stille Sainte-Victoire

Rademacher, Cay2023

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April in Provence is warm, sunny, green - and murderous. Captain Roger Blanc stands in front of a man who has been killed in a bizarre way, in the shadow of Sainte-Victoire, the mountain that Cézanne immortalized in many paintings. The victim: Roland Dallest, a civil engineer from Lyon who was studying the statics of a dam, a conscientious, peace-loving man who had only been working at Midi for three weeks. At first no one seems to have a motive for his death. But Blanc quickly finds out that his twin brother Christian works nearby: a famous paleontologist who has been discovering dinosaur bones on the Sainte-Victoire for years. A terrible mistake on the part of the perpetrator? Did the murderer actually want to kill the well-known scientist and mistook him for the twin brother who happened to be there? Little by little, Blanc uncovers secrets surrounding the dam - and the secrets of the paleontologists who are engaged in a merciless competition for fossils, money and fame. And soon he and his colleagues Marius and Fabienne see more suspects than they would like..April in Provence is warm, sunny, green - and murderous. Captain Roger Blanc stands in front of a man who has been killed in a bizarre way, in the shadow of Sainte-Victoire, the mountain that Cézanne immortalized in many paintings. The victim: Roland Dallest, a civil engineer from Lyon who was studying the statics of a dam, a conscientious, peace-loving man who had only been working at Midi for three weeks. At first no one seems to have a motive for his death. But Blanc quickly finds out that his twin brother Christian works nearby: a famous paleontologist who has been discovering dinosaur bones on the Sainte-Victoire for years. A terrible mistake on the part of the perpetrator? Did the murderer actually want to kill the well-known scientist and mistook him for the twin brother who happened to be there? Little by little, Blanc uncovers secrets surrounding the dam - and the secrets of the paleontologists who are engaged in a merciless competition for fossils, money and fame. And soon he and his colleagues Marius and Fabienne see more suspects than they would like...