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A Twist of Orchids

A Death in Dordogne Mystery with Mara Dunn and Julian Wood by Michelle Wan

A Twist of Orchids by Michelle Wan

Synopsis (from the publisher): Mara Dunn, an ex-pat Montrealer and interior designer, with orchid-loving Brit, Juilian Wood, are back and are putting their talents as amateur sleuths to the test. Their winter days in the French countryside are immersed in fine food and ruggedly beautiful scenery. But before long they find themselves surrounded by unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, and three mysterious deaths and counting ...

Mara and Julian have made a home together in France's rustic Dordogne. Their relationship is strained when their lives are thrown off course by a series of horrifying events.

When their friend and neighbor, Amelie Gaillard, falls mysteriously to her death she leaves behind an alienated daughter and a husband battling Parkinson's disease who is visited by an apparition. Then a local Turkish couple's son disappears and is soon found dead of an overdose. How does his death tie-in with that of an undercover narcotics agent? Add to the mix a burglar on the prowl and eluding the police in their usually serene corner of the world.

Mara and Julian pull together the threads linking the spike in local drug traffic, murder and burglary only to find their relationship falling apart. They must now tackle a more personal conundrum: are they really meant to be together? As events overtake them, they learn that the choice may not be theirs to make.

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A Twist of Orchids by Michelle Wan

A Twist of Orchids by Michelle Wan — A Death in Dordogne Mystery with Mara Dunn and Julian Wood

Publisher: Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-66485-1
Publication Date: April 2008
List Price: $19.95

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