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
stopNora and Toby s amateur sleuthing, and what happens next is no
joke."