RELOCATION TO MURDER

by Helen Johnson

Jessie Wilder relocates to Paris from London on secondment with her employer. Her best friend Deb has been in Paris for a year running a Chocolate Shop in the rue de Rivoli and is delighted when Jessie agrees to move in with her. They are chalk and cheese but are fiercely loyal. They join a night school to improve their limited French and Deb strikes up a relationship with their handsome teacher, Dan. Jessie is still hoping love will somehow find her.One afternoon there is an altercation outside Deb’s shop which quickly turns violent and gunshots are fired, two people are killed and several wounded. The police closely monitor both Deb and Jessie during the investigation as potential antique smuggling gang leaders make contact with the girls.Jessie returns to London for a long weekend to attend the opera, a great love of hers, and meets a man in peculiar circumstances. Their relationship blossoms until his long-term friend puts a spanner in the works, breaking them up. Whilst drowning in sorrow and pining for her lost love, Jessie hears a late-night news bulletin that alerts her to who the gang ringleader may be. She must find Deb. From thereon in she unwittingly puts herself in grave danger, is drugged, beaten and kidnapped. Can she escape, can she alert the police, and can she save her friend in time?

204 pages, Paperback

Published March 22, 2021

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