A
murder mystery needs a dead body without an obvious killer, beyond that, it’s
all in the presentation. M. L. Longworth recaptures the things I loved in my
favorite (now dead) British authors: Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio
Marsh. The settings are contemporary to the author’s time; there is a murder,
but no grisly description of its occurrence; the characters, especially the
sleuths, are well developed and believable. Longworth’s Antoine Verlaque and
Marine Bonnet are so appealing I want to join them for a glass of wine and/or
dinner!
In
their fourth adventure, the pair is on a holiday on an island in the
Mediterranean where a decades-abandoned luxury hotel has just reopened. Owners Maxime
and Catherine Le Bon have invested everything in restoring the Locanda Sordou
and it is vital that the first season be a success. When one of the small group
of guests is murdered, Verlaque’s and Bonnet’s holiday ends. To add to the
adventure, a major storm cuts off all outside contact. Murder on the Ile Sordou has everything I
enjoy in this genre: a beautiful setting, good food and wine, clever
conversation, and a murderer to catch. Très agréable.
CAS
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