The orchid shroud - Michelle Wan
a novel of death in the Dordogne
KORTE INHOUD
Following Michelle Wans masterful debut Deadly Slipper , The Orchid Shroud takes readers back to the ruggedly beautiful Dordogne region of France, to a tantalizing world of wild orchids . . . and the discovery of a chilling murder.
Business is booming for Julian and Mara. She has been contracted by Julians old friend, Christophe de Bonfond, to restore his sixteenth-century manor house, her biggest commission yet. Julian has been engaged by Christophes cousin, Antoine, to landscape the new sales pavilion of his prestigious Coteaux de Bonfond Winery.
Things take a horrifying twist when Maras workmen find a mummified baby in the manor house wall. Forensic analysis shows that the infant, nicknamed Baby Blue after the blue silk shawl it was wrapped in, was smothered and that the crime took place over a hundred years ago.
Julian and Mara are increasingly drawn into the web of this old crime. Julian, always searching for his mystery orchid, discovers that the infants shawl is embroidered with a botanically accu...
Business is booming for Julian and Mara. She has been contracted by Julians old friend, Christophe de Bonfond, to restore his sixteenth-century manor house, her biggest commission yet. Julian has been engaged by Christophes cousin, Antoine, to landscape the new sales pavilion of his prestigious Coteaux de Bonfond Winery.
Things take a horrifying twist when Maras workmen find a mummified baby in the manor house wall. Forensic analysis shows that the infant, nicknamed Baby Blue after the blue silk shawl it was wrapped in, was smothered and that the crime took place over a hundred years ago.
Julian and Mara are increasingly drawn into the web of this old crime. Julian, always searching for his mystery orchid, discovers that the infants shawl is embroidered with a botanically accu...
