Detective Lauriant investigates - Graham R Wood

Set in the pastoral ambiance of 1960s France, Detective Lauriant Investigates contains two hardboiled novellas. 'Death in a Ditch' delivers Lauriant to Saint Sauveur where he begins the nasty task of piecing together the grisly death of an antiques dealer whose body has been found in a ditch. 'Murder in the Vendee' finds Lauriant disgraced and banished to a small, sleepy province where he must solve the mystery of a Count's murder. The obvious suspect is the Count's son, but Lauriant senses deeper, political motives...