This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE FLEUR DE SEL MURDERS. Copyright © 2012 by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne/Germany. Translation copyright © 2017 by Sorcha McDonagh. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Bannalec, Jean-Luc, 1966– author.
Title: The Fleur de Sel murders: a Brittany mystery / Jean-Luc Bannalec.
Other titles: Bretonisches Gold. English.
Description: New York: Minotaur Books, 2018. | First published May 2014 as Bretonisches Gold by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, Germany.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017045698 | ISBN 9781250071903 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781466883130 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | LCGFT: Detective and mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PT2662.A565 B74513 2018 | DDC 833/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017045698
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First published May 2014 as Bretonisches Gold by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, Germany
First U.S. Edition: April 2018