Blog Tour: The French for Murder

 

Review - 5 out of 5 stars:

The Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series is a firm favourite, so I was eager to get my hands on The French for Murder.

This time around, Eleanor is on holiday in France, naturally bringing her entourage with her! And, naturally, they stumble across a dead body. This is followed by shenanigans with the French police, the local mayor, a group of Americans filming nearby, some artists, some musicians, and a couple who have booked out an entire hotel!

As always, it’s lovely to return to the familiar cast of characters. I very much enjoyed seeing them in a different setting, with different challenges to overcome.

The plot was an interesting one. There were so many possible culprits, and quite a number of them were up to no good (though not necessarily murder). This left plenty of opportunity for trying to work out who had done the dastardly deed, and kept me guessing right up to the end.

As with the previous books, I loved the banter between our main characters, especially Eleanor and Clifford. And Gladstone had his small part to play in solving the mystery too.

In conclusion, this was yet another winning combination of murder mystery and humour from Verity Bright. I can’t wait for the next book (Death Down the Aisle)!

I was given a free copy of this book, my opinions are my own.

Book Description:

A grand villa, croissants for breakfast and a dead body in the wine cellar… Lady Swift can’t seem to take a vacation from murder!

Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France for the season. She plans to do what a glamorous lady abroad should: long lunches on the balcony followed by lazy afternoons lounging by the pool. Even Gladstone the bulldog is looking forward to a daily paddle in the ocean.

But when Clifford examines the wine cellar, he discovers there are no decent reds but there is a very dead body. The victim is famous American movie star Rex Armstrong. Poor Rex seems to have been stabbed with a sword from the film set. So how did he end up in Eleanor’s villa?

Before Eleanor even has time to change out of her travelling suit, her beloved butler is arrested for the crime. At sea without her right-hand man, Eleanor must gather her wits if she’s to outsmart a murderer and save Clifford.

Attending a glitzy party at the luxurious Hotel Azure with the film’s cast and crew so she can question her main suspects, Eleanor overhears the director having a most unsettling telephone call that throws all her theories out of the water. Can Eleanor unmask the true killer before her time abroad is cut murderously short?

A gripping historical murder mystery full of charm and intrigue, set in the beautiful French Riviera. Fans of Agatha Christie, T E Kinsey and Lee Strauss will adore The French for Murder.

Author Bio:

Verity Bright is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing partnership that has spanned a quarter of a century. Starting out writing high-end travel articles and books, they published everything from self-improvement to humour, before embarking on their first historical mystery. They are the authors of the fabulous Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series, set in the 1920s.

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