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Verlaque and Bonnet Series

Book Review: A Noël Killing by M. L. Longworth

By Emma Cazabonne

December 10, 2019

M.L. Longworth’s latest mystery, A Noël Killing, the eighth volume of her Verlaque and Bonnet series, is set in the small town of Aix-en-Provence. Actually, Aix-en-Provence counts 143,00 inhabitants, so not really a small town, especially for French standards. It is currently the twenty-second most populated city in France. Still, M.L. Longworth manages to create a…

Smaller is Better: Mysteries Set in Small Towns

By M.L. Longworth

November 13, 2019

The painter Paul Cézanne was never comfortable with the Paris art scene, despite claiming he would change it “with an apple” (and he did). He was mal à l’aise with people, especially the fashionable, the wealthy. He once said, “The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from…

Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth

Fresh Meat: Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth

By Jenny Maloney

May 28, 2013

Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth is the third in the Verlaque and Bonnet traditional mystery series set in Provence (available May 28, 2013). Olivier Bonnard, the owner of Domaine Beauclaire winery, is devastated when he discovers the theft of a priceless cache of rare vintages. Soon after, Monsieur Gilles d’Arras reports that…

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