Third in the acclaimed βDeath in the Dordogneβ series. Winter in the Dordogne: delicious food, ruggedly beautiful scenery, unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, a poetic house-breaker, and three mysterious deaths and counting . . . Expat Montrealer Mara Dunn and orchid-loving Brit Julian Woo
A Twist of Orchids
β Scribed by Michelle Wan
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada;Minotaur Books
- Year
- 2008;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1429936401
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β¦ Synopsis
"Cross-pollinates Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief with Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence."βThe Washington Post Book World on Deadly Slipper
In this electrifying third installment of the highly acclaimed Death in the Dordogne series, Mara Dunn and Julian Wood are living together in an uneasy, on-and-off wayβso uneasy that each begins to wonder if they are really meant to be together. But when Julian, with his unerring understanding of the orchidlover's mind, thinks he has found the link between a killer and a local murder, one of them might lose the otherβpermanently.
β¦ Subjects
Mystery
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