Hardcover. Condition: Collectible, Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, hardcover, fine, as new, in near fine white and blue pictorial dj. First printing. 350 pp. plus notes on author. It's love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant d'Eau -- the Song of Water -- a stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valey, She impulsively buys the property and moves to St. Merlot. Lo and behold she finds a corpse floating facedown in her swimming pool. Book.
Published by New York: Harper Collins, (2019), 2019
Language: English
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The first book in a new series set in modern Provence. "Its love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant dEau - The Song of Water - the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley. . . Since taking early retirement from her job in forensics at the Home Office in England, shes been an unpaid babysitter and chauffeur for her grandchildren. Though her dream house needs major renovations, Penelope impulsively buys the property and moves to St. Merlot." And then she finds a body floating facedown in her pool, and things get more complicated from there.345 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (light crease to lower corner back cover).