REVIEW: DEATH IN THE VINES by M. L. Longworth

Every summer reading list needs a cozy mystery.  This one is nestled in the community of Aix-en-Provence.  Magistrate Verlaque oversees Commissioner Paulik’s investigation of a possible wine theft.  A local vineyard is stunned to discover a number of irreplaceable bottles from its cellar. Soon local law enforcement will wish the only crime they had to…

REVIEW: MURDER IN THE RUE DUMAS by ML Longworth

This whodunit revisits Judge Antoine Verlaque and law professor turned amateur sleuth Marine Bonnet, and their lives in Aix-en-Provence.  The two were introduced in Death At Chateau Bremont, a mystery about identity and inheritance.  This time they join forces to find the murderer of fellow professor Dr Georges Moutte. Scholarly, perhaps, but hated by most…

REVIEW: DEATH AT THE CHATEAU BREMONT by M.L. Longworth

Any lover of wine, cigars, and old world charm — as well as a good yarn — should read this mystery.  It poses no genre-defying questions,  and it really doesn’t really hold any gasp-enducing surprises.  But that’s ok, because it is the perfect hammock read for the summer.  Antione Verlaque is a slightly cranky, somewhat…