Death in the South of France

by JaneJakeman (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.26

  As the city of Cannes prepares for the annual film festival, a horrific discovery is made. The latest in a series of mutilated bodies is found on the seafront and the newly arrived young juge d'instruction (examining magistrate), Cecile Galant, finds herself in charge of an unpleasant and complicated investigation. Meanwhile, at his flat in London, Charlie Cashel receives an anonymous package which galvanises him into action - a roll of undeveloped film, postmarked Cannes . Three months earlier his half-sister was murdered there and her killer never found. The developed film shows only one photograph: a painting of a cemetery in the south of France. Determined to uncover some answers, Charlie heads back to France and straight back into the danger zone...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $7.68

  Cloudless skies, blue sea and a horrifying discovery - the most glamorous boulevard on the French Riviera, La Croisette, where the jet-set go to see and be seen, is about to become the backdrop to a disturbing murder enquiry. When another in a series of mutilated bodies is found on the seafront, the newly arrived young magistrate, Cecile Galant, finds herself in charge of an investigation that is not all that it seems...Meanwhile, at his flat in London, Charlie Cashel, an affable but aimless young Englishman, receives a mysterious package which galvanises him into action - a roll of undeveloped film, postmarked Cannes . Charlie's half-sister, Rosie, was murdered there and her killer never found. When the film is developed it shows only one photograph: a painting of a cemetery in the south of France. To get to the heart of the mystery, the hot, thyme-scented countryside of Provence must be explored as lives and events intertwine with horrific and disturbing consequences.