Detective Lauriant Investigates

Set in the pastoral ambiance of 1960s France, Detective Lauriant Investigates is two novellas in one volume, featuring a cynical, yet compassionate investigator who always gets his man. In Death in a Ditch, Lauriant is sent to the small town of Saint Sauveur to investigate the grisly death of an antique dealer, whose body has been found in a ditch with the head beaten in. His investigation draws him into a hidden world of entangled relationships, envies, loves and hatreds.Murder in the Vendee finds Lauriant disgraced and banished to a small, sleepy province, where he must solve the mystery of a Count's murder, and decide if their top suspect, the Count's son, is really to blame. Was it a political or a family murder? Or were there deeper causes hidden beneath the tranquil surface of the little village?