Murder at Cap d’Antibes

On the Riviera, a false name can open a villa door. It can also leave a man dead behind it.
Spring 1933. Julian Ashcombe and Clara Bennett are summoned to Cap d'Antibes when a worried client questions the identity of a woman drawn into her family's life. The sunlit coast promises calm; the villa offers nothing, but uneasy charm, old resentments, and a household determined to preserve its version of the past.
Then a death turns a private concern into a murder enquiry. Evidence begins to suggest that someone has been living behind a carefully constructed history. But on the Riviera, a convincing story can be made of letters, photographs and the things people are willing to repeat. Julian is forced to question his own instinct for social certainty, while Clara follows the smaller contradictions no one thinks worth hiding.
With the local police pursuing the crime, they must discover whether the false identity is the answer—or the trap. Before Mediterranean glamour hardens into silence, Julian and Clara must expose the truth beneath a life built on appearances.