Title: The Beekeeper's Investigations - Volume 1 Checkmate to the Queen - Valérie Valeix - book
Summary :
A prominent consultant beekeeper in Quercy, young Audrey Astier travels the world in search of different working methods with the aim of ensuring the protection of bees. While she has an appointment with her old training supervisor, Janissou Laborde, known as the Pope, he mysteriously disappears... Alongside the disturbing Lieutenant Steinberger, recently assigned to the Rocamadour gendarmerie after his return from Afghanistan, Audrey will run the causse to try to outwit the traps of a terrifying secret society ready to do anything to achieve its ends... This new genre series skillfully mixes intrigue (all the ingredients of an excellent detective novel are present: investigation, suspense, action...), ecology (recalling the importance of protecting bees and apitherapy), History (many significant local or national events are discussed) and heritage (we discover with pleasure the riches and traditions of the regions). A real success, to be discovered urgently!
