French Pastry Murder

A Maine mom’s culinary adventure in Paris turns into a crime-solving tour:

“A delight from start to finish.”—

Suspense Magazine

  Lucy Stone is saying 

au revoir 

to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and 

bonjour

 to Paris to take in the sights, learn how to bake authentic French pastries, and experience some joie de vivre. But her dreams of 

la vie en rose 

are put on hold when the City of Lights turns deadly. When renowned pastry chef Larry Bruneau is discovered on death’s doorstep and Lucy and her friends are detained for questioning, she’s worried she’ll be trading in her luxury accommodations for a sojourn in the Bastille. Now, if she’s going to enjoy her vacation, she’ll have to unpack her sleuthing skills and clear her name, in this novel in the “engaging cozy series” by the

New York Times

-bestselling author (

Publishers Weekly

).   “A delight from start to finish.”—

Suspense Magazine

“Leslie Meier has created a town I’d like to live in and a sleuth I’d love to meet.”—Jill Churchill, Agatha Award-winning author of the Jane Jeffry Mysteries