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The secrets of the Bastide Blanche /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Longworth, M. L. Verlaque and Bonnet mystery ; 07.Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2020Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 383 pages (large print) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781643587783
  • 1643587781
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9199.4.L596 S43 2020b
Summary: "One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valere Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a grand house left empty for decades. But Valere's ideas of a peaceful retirement are quickly dashed. Rambunctious neighborhood children, a fast-talking gossip of a housekeeper, and a rival novelist filter through the home at all hours of the day -- and by night there are unseen visitors with more sinister intentions. While Antoine Verlaque investigates Valere's sordid history, his wife and partner, Marine Bonnet, questions why the estate was abandoned in the first place -- and what they both find raises more questions than answers. Is Valere imagining the ethereal cries that fill the bastide at night? Is he losing his mind? Or have these ghosts returned from Valere's checkered past to haunt him?"--
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LP LP Chamberlin Free Public Library Large Print LP LON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000578082

Regular print version previously published by: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Sequel to: The curse of La Fontaine.

"One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valere Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a grand house left empty for decades. But Valere's ideas of a peaceful retirement are quickly dashed. Rambunctious neighborhood children, a fast-talking gossip of a housekeeper, and a rival novelist filter through the home at all hours of the day -- and by night there are unseen visitors with more sinister intentions. While Antoine Verlaque investigates Valere's sordid history, his wife and partner, Marine Bonnet, questions why the estate was abandoned in the first place -- and what they both find raises more questions than answers. Is Valere imagining the ethereal cries that fill the bastide at night? Is he losing his mind? Or have these ghosts returned from Valere's checkered past to haunt him?"--

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