Third in the acclaimed Death in the Dordogne series.Winter in the Dordogne: delicious food, ruggedly beautiful scenery, unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, a poetic house-breaker, and three mysterious deaths and counting . . .Expat Montrealer Mara Dunn and orchid-loving Brit Julian Wood are living together in an uneasy, on-and-off way. When bad things start to happen to their friendsfirst Amlie Gaillard falls mysteriously to her death, leaving behind a husband with Parkinsons who is visited by a murderous apparition, then a local Turkish couples son disappears and is soon found dead of an overdoseeach has a very different way of helping out. So different that each begins to wonder if they are really meant to be together.But when Julian, with his unerring understanding of the orchid-lovers mind, thinks he has found the link between the local spike in drug traffic and murder, one of them might lose the otherpermanently.From the Hardcover edition.