A Bolt from the Blue • E-book

"I fell in love with Merle Bennett in Blackbird Fly and wondered how the author could surpass that book. Yet in this book, I believe she did!"

Book 9 of the Bennett Sisters Mysteries

Paris beckons the Bennett Sisters again… with fine wine, abandoned villas, classic apartments, and hidden secrets

When Francie Bennett goes back to Paris to help untangle an old woman’s estate, at first she is confined to escorting the grumpy heir to fancy dinners. Not that she’s complaining because… well, PARIS. She’s up for more though, and the client turns out to be a a Frenchwoman who hates France, she is intrigued to say the least.

When Axelle Fourcier left Paris behind after the student riots of 1968, she vowed never to go back. She despises Paris, for reasons she keeps to herself. She made a life for herself in America. But now a beloved aunt has died at 104 and left her an inheritance to be shared with a cousin she never met. A fabulous Belle Époque apartment in Paris filled with pop art from the ’50s and ’60s is just the start of Axelle’s discoveries in Paris. Wrangling with her slick cousin for the proceeds is distasteful but oh so French.

What starts as an inheritance squabble turns sinister when the apartment is ransacked and a friend turns up murdered. Axelle is convinced the French state is conspiring against her. She might not be paranoid.

Francie juggles her difficult client, her complicated new relationship, Dylan's nine-year-old daughter, and a legal mess spiraling into deadly territory. Between Paris and the Dordogne, someone wants Axelle's inheritance badly enough to kill for it.

International intrigue. French legal battles. Murder in a Belle Époque apartment. And secrets buried since 1968.