The Missing Corpse

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Commissaire Dupin and his team have been involved in several odd cases, by The Missing Corpse by Jean-Luc Bannalec, tests their investigating skills and Dupin's patience.

Along the shores of the Brittany coast where the world's best oysters are harvested, Commissaire Dupin is finally feeling he can call himself a Breton even though he is originally from Paris. And as the world knows, everything worth inventing, discovering and making originated in Brittany. When a call comes in to police headquarters from a elderly actress about a body, Dupin rushes to the scene. 

When he gets there the body has disappeared and the actress has gone home. When he questions her she is decidedly vague about details and many think she has imagined the body.  A few days later Dupin receives a phone call about another body. This one has fallen from a cliff along the hiking trails. 

Complicating matters is Dupin's team. Riwal is sitting for the final exam for "Breton Languages and Cultures" and Kadeg has himself tied up in a clandestine investigation of sand theft, so Dupin has to include some other local police in the mysterious case. Are the two deaths related? Have there really been two corpses or is Madame Bandol imagining things?

No one knows who the victims are until one is identified by a tattoo on his arm. The mystery takes Riwal to Scotland and the secret Celtic societies and myths about the area surrounding the Belon River. The case seems to veer off in one direction, only to bounce back and the Prefect is anxious to claim glory through a press conference. What is a Commissaire to do?

These books have been so entertaining to read. The Bretons are extremely proud of their area and Commissaire Dupin is learning what makes them tick.