A Twist of Orchids
A Death in the Dordogne Mystery
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"Cross-pollinates Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief with Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence."—The Washington Post Book World on Deadly Slipper
Winter in the Dordogne: delicious food, ruggedly beautiful scenery, unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, a poetic house-breaker, and three mysterious deaths and counting . . .
In this electrifying third installment of the highly acclaimed Death in the Dordogne series, expat Montrealer Mara Dunn and Brit Julian Wood are living together in an uneasy, on-and-off way. When bad things start to happen to their friends—first Amelie Gaillard falls mysteriously to her death, then a local Turkish couple’s son disappears—each has a very different way of helping out. So different that each begins to wonder if they are really meant to be together. But when Julian, with his unerring understanding of the orchid lover’s mind, thinks he has found the link between the local spike in drug traffic and murder, one of them might lose the other—permanently.
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In Wan's diverting third Dordogne mystery (after 2007's The Orchid Shroud), unlikely couple Julian Wood and Mara Dunn he's an English orchid expert, she's a French-Canadian interior designer must sort out some relationship issues as well as the consequences of some local murder and mayhem. One market day in Ecoute-la-Pluie, a belligerent youth's assault on a Turkish vendor, who had the audacity to impugn a passing pig farmer's manhood, leads to general commotion in the town square. As the gendarmes race in, Am lie Gaillard, an elderly neighbor of Julian and Mara's, dies in a flying fall down the stairs of the Two Sisters restaurant. Meanwhile, the body of an unidentified male with needle marks in his arm turns up near the Temple of Vesunna, the apparent victim of a gangland killing. A Turkish love potion, thefts by a rhyming burglar, and a hunt for a hitherto unknown orchid all figure in a winning tale that will appeal in particular to Francophiles.
