Fans of European sleuths with a taste for good food such as Martin Walker’s Bruno (Bruno, Chief of Police) will have fun.

In the space of three pages, we are informed four times (and several more times later on) that a tertiary character's parents divorced a couple of years previously.

I think this is the first murder mystery I have read with references to Persian Letters by Montesquieu - a discussion I enjoyed so much I plan to read it again very soon.

Will Judge Antoine Verlaque, his on again/off again lady friend law professor Marine Bonnet and Commissioner Bruno Paulik of the Aix police unravel these mysteries? Dla wielu osób pewno byłoby nudne i bez akcji, ale na mnie działa w tych okropnych czasach jak balsam. I don't have to think about whether it will fit into one of my zillion challenges (and hopefully more than one) or whether I have time to sneak in a non-challenge book. She is the author of a mystery series set in Southern France, the Provençal Mysteries, published by Penguin USA.Several characters describe her as beautiful, and a great deal of energy is spent making sure we know she's good looking.