Parlez-Vous Murder?
Book 1 of the Stranded in Provence Mysteries
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4.1 • 468 Ratings
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Publisher Description
My name is Jules Hooker. I have lived through a few crappy moments in my life—and with a name like Hooker, you can just imagine—but nothing, nothing, compares to the two intensely and world-shatteringly crappy things that happened to me this last June.
Three, I guess, if you count Gilbert.
After my boyfriend dumped me on the day I thought he was going to propose, I’d have to say two other really bad things happened last June. The first would have to be the dead body I discovered in the rental house in France where I went to get over being dumped.
The second—and very possibly I should have led with this—was the dirty bomb that exploded over the Riviera throwing me and everyone else in France back to the 1950s.
So now I’m stranded here—trying to make a living by solving murders the old fashioned way — without help from DNA, databases, CSI crime labs or the police.
And I’m doing it in France.
Where I do not speak the language.
During the apocalypse.
Sound like fun?
Customer Reviews
Slow start, but in the end, a good read.
Glad I continued reading!
Parlez-vous Murder?
This was an unusual post-apocalyptic story that ties in a woman who is stranded in a country where she doesn’t speak the language, doesn’t know the culture, has no clue how long the “apocalypse” is going to last, and everyone blames it on the Americans, ie, her. Meanwhile, she feels the need to solve the murder of a young woman who had the misfortune to be killed right before the world fell apart, thus taking away all of the energy of the police and leaving none to finding her murderer. A crappy vacation, indeed.
Loved
The sitting, the characters & what if this really happened… Something we should think about.. Love the two older characters.. well written.. Good read