A French Country Murder (A Louis Morgon Thriller Book 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003J5UHYW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is also a story of love and friendship and, of course, France.This book was later published as Le Crime.. This seems peculiar to Renard, but not to Louis. Instead of power or influence, he has only his own past. Instead of knowledge, he has only his intuition and his intelligence. He also knows that he is likely to be the next victim. He grew vegetables and flowers. It does so in the shape of a dead man. He thought that he had found happiness.Then one day Louis's past lands squarely on his doorstep. But every turn of the road reveals new mysteries, and the resolution is a shock.A French Country Murder is a story of political intrigue, corruption and jealousy. Each clue they find raises more questions than it answers. His throat has been slit. Nothing is as it appears.Louis's best hope is to turn the tables on his murderer. He thought he was beyond surprises. He ate long, lovely meals on the terrace overlooking fields of sunflowers. He knows who the murderer is. He wears a cap with liberte embroidered on it. Louis finds himself on a lonely and dangerous journey of self-discovery. And there is very little he or Renard or anyone else can do. When political intrigue drove Louis Morgon from a successful career at the State Department, he moved to a cottage in France, far from Washington and what he called "the sordid world." He took up painting. Except for the local cop, Jean Renard, the police are strangely uninteres
Decades later, someone deposits a corpse with a slit throat on his doorstep. . From Publishers Weekly Le Carre and Deighton fans will welcome New Yorker cartoonist Steiner's engaging, if enigmatic, first novel, which uses the traditional trappings of the thriller to explore a man's late-life changes. After his unjust dismissal from the CIA, where he was an up-and-coming Middle East policy expert, Louis Morgon finds refuge in rural France. The scenes set in small-town France capture the atmosphere and pace of life there wonderfully. While lit
"Why france?" according to liz weiss. I didn't enjoy this book at all. Why set it in France. It was just another CIA , corrupt government, story. Very depressing and the self searching of the author boring. The first paragraph about preparing breakfast was the best in all the book. The rest was downhill. Woman from Connecticut said Four Stars. It started off slowly, but developed into a suspense later on. I found the characters interesting and well-developed.. An Unforgettable Tale of Mystery, Madness and Romance Peter Steiner may be familiar to you, though not as a writer. He is a cartoonist; his work appears in such diverse publications as The New Yorker and The Washington Times. Knowledge of his work in his heretofore chosen profession will not prepare you for A FRENCH COUNTRY MURDER, his first novel. This is an altogether serious work, combinin