Not since my first visit to Louise Penny’s Three Pines, have I encountered a more beguiling fictional world than Susan C. Shea’s Reigny-Sur-Cannes Catriona McPherson, award-winning author on Dressed for Death in Burgundy

Ariel Shepherd is devastated by the sudden loss of her husband, but nothing could have prepared her for inheriting the rundown French chateau they’d visited on their honeymoon four years ago. With finances tight she has no choice but to swap her Manhattan apartment and city lifestyle for a renovation project in a peaceful French village.

When Ariel hires an expert to help her uncover the legacy of her beautiful ruin, life only becomes more complicated. Christiane, the historian is found dead in the moat, and although the local police aren’t suspicious, Ariel is. She joins two other ex-pats, Pippa and Katherine to investigate, but with plenty of workmen - and errant tools - around the chateau, many people had the means, but who had the motive? Why would anyone want to kill a historian?

Ariel begins to suspect that her French village life will be anything but peaceful! Can she solve the suspicious murder and make her chateau in Burgundy the perfect new home?