Detective Lauriant Investigates Candlewick Press with the pace and tension

with the pace and tension of Frederick Forsyth

is one of great brutality

From the bestselling author

not only against El Lobo

The Duke of Mersham is hosting a party at his country house

Detective Lauriant Investigates Candlewick Press with the pace and tensionSet in the pastoral ambiance of 1960s France, Detective Lauriant Investigates contains two hardboiled novellas. "Death in a Ditch" delivers Lauriant to Saint Sauveur where he begins the nasty task of piecing together the grisly death of an antiques dealer whose body has been found in a ditch. "Murder in the Vendee" finds Lauriant disgraced and banished to a small, sleepy province where he must solve the mystery of a Count's murder. The obvious suspect