A cross between "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" and "A Year in Provence", this highly acclaimed thriller (published in hardback as "A French Country Murder") is a thoroughly original and completely engaging crime novel of international espionage. When Louis Morgan finds a dead body on the doorstep of his charming little house, he teams up with the local gendarme to solve a murder. Charming and delectable eccentricities a la Francais abound.