American Rachel Levis learns that her ex-boyfriend of 20 years ago, French financier Edgar Bowen, has drowned in a bowl of soup. The police rule the death accidental and move on to other cases. Rachel's husband, Alan, doesn't remember Edgar's significance in Rachel's life, but her friend Magda does. When Rachel hears that a bottle of rosé was on the table at the time of his death, Edgar's dislike of the wine sticks out to her. Then, she receives a bequest from Edgar's will that asks her to catalog his library and in the process choose a book to keep. With more than one person acting strangely at the funeral and the reading of the will, Rachel and Magda decide to use Rachel's invitation into the library as a means to investigate. Could the killer be the ex-wife, the girlfriend, the mystery woman, the butler, or the son? And what if it turns out there was no murder?
VERDICT Readers of Joanne Fluke or those who enjoy contemporary cozy mysteries with amateur sleuths will gobble up this first in a series with two Americans in Paris as if it's an actual treat in a Paris café.
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