I stuck with this one for longer than I should have because it showed promise. Then I got to a point where the murderer was revealed to readers, and we weren't even halfway through. I decided it wasn't worth continuing. I have not read earlier installments. The sleuth Maggie goes to Saint-Rémy to visit her author friend who is introducing her to her agent. After Maggie returns home, the very pregnant 14-year-old niece shows up at Maggie's house where she has her baby. When the woman is found murdered, suspicious immediately goes to the niece who claims she did not do it. She was, however, holding the knife and had wished her aunt dead earlier. Maggie sets out to investigate and is threatened by the investigating officer with jail if she doesn't leave the premises. This just didn't work for me, and I didn't finish it because the author revealed too much too early, and I was not engaged in it. ( )