Review: I can smell the Lavender.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
This episode in the series of Maggie and Laurent is better than the first, and stands quite well alone from it, if you have not read it. The setting of the little village St. Buvard, the mas, which appears to mean farmhouse, a beautiful stone structure that becomes their home, and the tension produced by Maggie's very present fear that her Frenchman Laurent will never want to leave his vineyards creates a wonderful backdrop for mayhem, madness and a very old and a very new murder to collide in a most satisfying manner. The well done writing brings alive the scents, the feelings, the beauty (and winter ugliness and chill) of the French countryside. Bonne lecture.