When art historian Nora Barnes returns to France for a Van Gogh
conference in the charming medieval village of Saint-Paul-de-Vence,
she's expecting a vigorous debate about whether the famed artist's
suicide was actually a homicide. But on the night before the conference,
an elderly French woman who'd promised to reveal important evidence is
found face down in the village fountain, and her Chanel briefcase is
nowhere to be seen.
During a week of academic squabbling, dining, romance, and suspense, the
quirky conference members, one by one, fall under police suspicion and
the amused gaze of Nora's husband, Toby Sandler. But someone wants to
stop Nora and Toby's amateur sleuthing, and what happens next is no
joke.