That dark spring : a true story of death and desire in 1920s Provence / Susannah Stapleton.

London : Picador, 2025.

400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

In April 1929, the body of British artist Olive Branson was found submerged in a water tank outside her farmhouse in a picturesque Provence village. Dressed only in a pink shirt and stockings, she had a bullet hole between her eyes and a revolver by her side.Was it suicide - or murder? The initial investigation concluded suicide, but under pressure from Olive's family to conduct a murder enquiry, city detective Alexandre Guibbal was brought in to reopen the case. Examining never-before-seen evidence, true crime writer Susannah Stapleton builds a vivid and absorbing picture of an unconventional life and a violent death, and an investigation that shines a bright light on a village simmering with resentments and dangerous rivalries.

9781529065541 (hbk)

364.1'523'0944909042
364.152309449090

English

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