Blogs in April 2020

The Curse of La Fontaine 20th April 2020

Provençal Mystery Series #6 Chef Sigisbert “Bear” Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine, in Aix-en-Provence. It’s an immediate success—glowing reviews and a loyal clientele, including our favorite investigative duo, Verlaque and Bonnet. But when he decides to extend...

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The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche 20th April 2020

Provençal Mystery Series #7 One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valère Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a...

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Death at the Chateau Bremont 11th April 2015

Étienne de Bremont is found dead having fallen from an attic window at the family château. Suicide? Possibly murder. Then Magistrate Verlaque has to investigate another death – all set against the fabulous backdrop of Provence

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Murder on the Ile Sordou 12th October 2014

Like Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri, M. L. Longworth’s books enchant mystery lovers with a taste for good food and gorgeous landscapes. In Murder on the Île Sordou, Judge Antoine Verlaque and his girlfriend, law professor Marine Bonnet, are hoping...

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