A widow, a thief, and a body!

Murder Visits a French Village (Château in Burgundy #1) by Susan C Shea     

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Mention of Julia Child, Beouf Bourguignon, red wine and baguette, and author Shea had me at the first paragraph.

Widowed Ariel Shepherd is astounded to find Daniel, her beloved husband of only four years had bought her a ruined château in Burgandy. It was to be a surprise.

Ariel impulsively sells their Manhattan apartment and moves to France, and hopefully a new chapter in her life.

What she didn’t count on was finding the dead body of a woman, a Sorbonne educated academic, whose area of interest was the provenance of châteaux of Burgundy, in the moat. Madame Breton had been looking into Ariel’s legal forms. Something about them had Madame puzzled.  

So early on I had my suspicions about things, although they kept being muddied, as bodies piled up.

A cozy mystery that had me salivating over the food descriptions more than anything else.

A Severn House ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.