Translated by Adriana Hunter

When you moved to France to a picturesque hamlet in the Dordogne no one said it would be like this in February: freezing cold, dark by mid-afternoon and so quiet. Members of the Caminade family keep dying in suspicious circumstances, and the doctor knows more about it than he''s prepared to reveal. Slyly funny and delightfully laconic, "Death in the Dordogne "is the perfect accompaniment for anyone thinking about a holiday in France!

An editor at a publishing house, Louis Sanders now lives in rural France in the Dordogne with his English wife.