Peter Morfoot

A Captain Darac Novel

1 - Impure Blood (Apr-2016)
2 - Babazouk Blues (Apr-2017)

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  Impure Blood
  

  • Apr-2016
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Captain Darac Novel - 1
  

  In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been murdered in the midst of a prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. And the more Darac and his team lea...

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  Babazouk Blues
  

  • Apr-2017
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Captain Darac Novel - 2
  

   Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle arrives at a crime scene to find a woman's mutilated corpse. Initially routine, the case deepens and darkens into a complex enquiry that threatens to close in on Darac himself. But allegiances past a...

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  Box of Bones
  

  • Apr-2018
  • / Suspense
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  "[A] breezy, entertaining crime novel... an auspicious debut" Publishers Weekly on Impure BloodIt is carnival time in Nice, and for three weeks the boulevards are alive with dancers, jugglers and musicians. Amid the colour and pageantry, a man suffer...

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  Fatal Music
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle is forced to abandon his jazz quintet mid-show by the call to a possible murder. He and his officers arrive on the scene to find the mutilated corpse of a woman, although her cause of death may not have be...

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  Knock 'em Dead
  

  • May-2020
  • / Law Enforcement
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  All summer, Captain Paul Darac of Nice’s Brigade Criminelle has been in a happy place with the woman he loves, the jazz group in which he plays, and the police team he leads. But as the Brigade is called to the murder of an elderly man at nearby Sa...

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  Essence of Murder
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Mystery
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  A go-to destination for students of the finer things in life, the Villa des Pinales is set high in the foothills above Nice. As groups check-in for three-day courses on wine tasting, perfume making and landscape painting, they are joined by their tut...

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  A Death in Time
  

  • May-2025
  • / Thriller
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  When a body is discovered at a stadium used by a college athletics squad, Darac cedes leadership of an ongoing case to investigate. Who is the victim? Why were they killed? Who could have performed such a brutal act? As the list of suspects grows and...

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