Jean-Luc Bannalec

Jean-Luc Bannalec is a German author, but the name is actually a pen name for a German writer named Jorg Bong. He debuted with his first novel, Death in Brittany(also known as Death in Pont-Aven) which is the first book in the Brittany Mystery series.

Bannalec/Bong divides his time between his home of Germany and the coastal Brittany in Northwestern France which inspired these novels. His first book debuted in Germany at first where it was a huge hit, selling over six hundred thousand copies, which led to it being published in other languages.