M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $14 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-143-11952-4
When filmmaker Étienne de Bremont takes a fatal fall out of a window of his Aix-en-Province chateau at the start of Longworth's disappointing debut, his lawyer cousins, Charles and Eric Brey, ask for an inquest, despite the conviction of Étienne's...
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $14 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-312154-1
Longworth’s entertaining second mystery set in Aix-en-Provence (after 2011’s Death at the Château Bremont) plunges magistrate Antoine Verlaque and his law professor girlfriend, Marine Bonnet, into the world of academe following a murder. Someone has
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-312244-9
Longworth throws a variety of puzzles at investigating magistrate Antoine Verlaque and his significant other, law professor Marine Bonnet, in their enjoyable third outing (after 2012’s Murder in the Rue Dumas). A few hours after Pauline d’Arras—an...
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-312554-9
In Longworth’s thoroughly delightful fourth Provençal mystery (after 2013’s Death in the Vines), examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet, his law-professor girlfriend, take a vacation on Sordou, a small island off the coast of...
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-312807-6
Longworth’s charming, if talky, fifth Verlaque and Bonnet mystery (after 2014’s Murder on the Île Sordou) looks at the art world. The book alternates between the now troubled relationship between Antoine Verlaque, the chief magistrate of Aix-en-Prove
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-311094-1
In Longworth’s beguiling, leisurely paced sixth mystery featuring magistrate Antoine Verlaque and law professor Marine Bonnet (after 2015’s The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne), Bear Valets, the chef at a popular restaurant in the newlywed couple’s...
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-313142-7
Framed as a conversation, Longworth’s stellar seventh Provençal mystery (after 2017’s The Curse of La Fontaine) offers elegant prose and a juicy plot. Over dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on Sept. 22, 2010, mega-bestselling French author...
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-313406-0
In Longworth’s appealing eighth Provençal mystery featuring magistrate Antoine Verlaque and his wife, law professor Marine Bonnet (after 2018’s The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche), vendors from sister cities all over the world have descended on the...
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-313529-6
Longworth’s entertaining ninth Provençal mystery (after 2019’s A Noël Killing) takes Judge Antoine Verlaque, the examining magistrate of Aix-en-Provence, and his wife, Marine Bonnet, along with his team of policemen, to the Musée Quentin-Savary, a...
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M.L. Longworth. Penguin, $17 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-313530-2
Set in Aix-en-Provence with detours to Paris, Longworth’s pleasing 10th Provençal mystery (after 2021’s The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral) finds the largely amateur cast of the Théâtre Vendôme’s upcoming production of Marcel Pagnol’s Cigalon...
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