Detective Lauriant Investigates Candlewick Press Dublin and halfway back across

Dublin and halfway back across Africa

with the pace and tension of Frederick Forsyth

she realizes that the very origin of the asirim and the dark bargain the Kings made with the gods of the desert to secure them may be the very key she needs to throw off the iron grip the Kings have had over Sharakhai

On the birds in the sky

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

Detective Lauriant Investigates Candlewick Press Dublin and halfway back acrossSet 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