Coming up: Manon Maury Book 1 – Pantry Bones

The bones of a mother and child in an old stone farmhouse. A doubtful suicide. An unlikely confession. A priest buying off suspects. A French village in turmoil. An ex- cop haunted by schizophrenia.

Manon’s foreman discovers two skeletons in a prison-like room behind the pantry of an isolated farmhouse. Within a week, the client is dead. The gendarmerie declares suicide. Manon suspects foul play. Does she leave the investigation to local law enforcement or does she help?

Who is Manon Maury?

She’s a top agent at the National Crime HQ in Paris. As far as she’s concerned, being schizophrenic is as irrelevant to her investigative brilliance as being left-handed. Sixteen years of anti-psychotic meds have ensured she’s the boss, not the voices.

Until the day she blames her husband’s affair on her mental illness and dumps the drugs. The voices come back; a year of undercover operations is destroyed; her credibility wrecked.

She claws back her sanity but wants out of everything. Paris, career, marriage. Off she goes, back to the village of her birth and her first love – wood, to take over the family carpentry business.

An unlikely team helps Manon break each case

Father Domanova – lover of vin doux and fado music, who has forty-six years of village secrets under his dog collar.

Franck Rigail – her not-quite-ex, with his extensive and illegal access to electronic data.

Anouk Kabila – feisty forensics lab owner.

Daniel Delgado – family friend, silver fox and mayor.

Pascal Pujol – village police officer and passionate mushroom forager.