A Mysterious Review of The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe by Timothy Williams. An Anne Marie Laveaud Mystery.
Review summary: The two primary storylines, the mysteries surrounding the murder of the young woman and the suicide of the businessman, are actually quite intriguing from a conceptual perspective, but they are wrapped in a really quite tedious investigation. The resolutions are interesting, but the path there takes far too much effort. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe
Timothy Williams
An Anne Marie Laveaud Mystery
Soho Crime (January 2015)
Publisher synopsis: April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean département of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises. She is only just starting to investigate the suspicious suicide of a high-profile environmental activist and media personality when she is pulled off the case. Is it because she was getting too close to the truth?
But the new case she's been assigned takes precedence. The naked body of a white woman has been discovered on a beach. The victim's remains offer no clues about her final hours — she was found without any of her belongings, and it seems she had been dead at least three days before anyone spotted her corpse. What turned this woman's vacation in paradise into a final nightmare?
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