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    Murder on the Ile Sordou
    Murder on the Ile Sordou
    Murder on the Ile Sordou
    Audiobook9 hours

    Murder on the Ile Sordou

    Written by M. L. Longworth

    Narrated by Christa Lewis

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    About this audiobook

    On-again couple Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet are hoping for a relaxing holiday at the Locanda Sordou, but someone has other plans.

    Hoteliers Maxime and Catherine Le Bon have spent their life savings restoring the hotel, which lies in an archipelago of sun-soaked islands off the coast of Marseille. To celebrate the grand opening, a group of privileged guests joins Verlaque and Bonnet: Marine's free-spirited best friend; an aging film star, his much-younger wife, and her disgruntled son; a pair of affable American tourists; and a querelous Parisian couple. But the murder of one of the guests casts a shadow over everyone's vacation, and things go from bad to worse when a violent storm cuts off all communication with the mainland. Will the killer strike again?

    Like Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri, M. L. Longworth enchants mystery lovers with a taste for good food and gorgeous landscapes in this installment of her acclaimed mystery series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781541443877
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    • 5/5
      I've just discovered M.L. Longworth's books, and they are all wonderful (the first four, anyway!). I'm bingeing on the audiobooks, whose reader is charming. There's joy in these stories-- character and beauty. The mystery plots are worthy of the great Agatha Christie, whom Longworth's characters mention from time to time.
    • 4/5
      Murder on the Ile Sordou by M. L. Longworth is a Verlaque & Bonnet Provencal Mystery, Book #4.Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet are on a holiday at a luxury hotel on the Ile Sordou, when a murder disrupts their relaxing (and quite luxurious) stay.I enjoy this series very much.The south of France - Provence - is one of, if not the main character. Along with the food, the wine, the ambiance, the well-detailed characters and plot points - the stage is set for a very remarkable mystery.I liked the author’s note about islands off the coast of Marseille. Sordou is an invented location, but there are many others, some closed to the public and others that can be visited by boat from Marseille’s Old Port.A good title and a good series. ****
    • 4/5
      I hovered over the 4.5 star mark for a second or two before settling on the 4 star. This is a really good entry in the Verlaque and Bonnet Provencal series. On holiday in a new resort 15 miles off the coast of Marseille, Verlaque and Bonnet are trying to keep a low profile, but the resort only has guests in 7 rooms and they all become friendly, until one morning after a storm, one of them is found dead on the shore. Verlaque is definitely the main focus of this book; Marine Bonnet is there every step of the way but there's very little told from her POV. Verlaque has come a long way from the overly aloof, even arrogant, judge he was at the start and even he worries he is becoming too soft. This is a relief, given that the reader spends most of the time with him. In spite of the murder, Longworth made me wish I could be there with them; dead body aside it sounded divine: great food, gorgeous setting, wonderful staff and friendly guests. And the way she wraps up the mystery (which was heartbreaking), I wouldn't have even minded sharing my week with the killer. (This would qualify for a locked room type mystery, and at a stretch, a 'country house' mystery; only the guest and staff, and the old lighthouse keeper are on the island, with no access on or off, and no cell phone reception. This would also work just fine as a stand-alone.)
    • 5/5
      Judge Antoine Verlaque, law professor Marine Bonnet, & her friend Sylvie (whom I dislike) are vacationing at a once popular revitalized seaside hotel, Locanda Sordou, off the coast of Marseilles. As the book begins we are introduced the guests & the small hotel staff. The guests include; Bill & Shirley Hobbes, an American couple; Eric Monnier, a retired professor & poet; Clement Viale & his wife, a school friend of Verlaque & hotel investor; Alain Denis, an egotistical-over-the-hill actor; his long suffering wife, Emmanuelle; and her son Brice.The hard-working staff include: Maxime & Cat-Cat Le Bon, owners of the renovated hotel; Nikki, office, desk, concierge; Marie-Therese, shy waitress, hostess, & kitchen girl; Emile, the nouveau chef who uses fresh ingredients found & grown on the island; Hugo, handyman; Mme Poux, the housekeeper; Serge, the bartender; and Prosper, the light-keeper & purveyor of fresh game,whose family have lived on the island for generations.The tension between the Denis family is palpable, making for discomfort among the guests. After arguing w/ Alain, Brice runs out of the hotel and disappears. When a single shot is heard all are assured it is Prosper who is out hunting rabbits... but the next morning Alain is found dead on the beach from a single gunshot to the head.Verlaque immediately calls for Inspector Bruno Paulik who joins the investigation & questioning of the guests all of whom, as eventually revealed, have something in common w/ the murdered man.The bostory was very interesting and engaging, I could see myself among the guests, drinking in the bar, eating the lushly described meals, sunning myself on the beach... I was entranced by the richness of description, which is what I love about this series. Odd thing is, the romance of this series reminds me of the 1920's not the current modern era in which it takes place.
    • 4/5
      Some fascinating characters gather on a Mediterranean island to enjoy the sun and the fine food and wine. Not everyone is as charming as the detectives, and soon someone is dead. A modern French version of the country house mystery. Effervescent and certainly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Loving this series, just keeps getting better. And the author is Toronto born!
    • 3/5
      I read this upon returning from a trip to Provence so especially enjoyed reading Murder on the Ile Sordou. A group of tourists visit a posh new hotel situated on a fictitious island off the coast of Marseille when one member of the group is murdered. The book read like a good old fashioned Agatha Christie whodunnit.
    • 4/5
      Murder on the Île Sordou is the 4th book in the Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery series. I will say it was a very French mystery. It would also fall under the cozies. I think there was almost as much time discussing the food being served as there was in character building. We meet most of the characters one at a time, get a little glimpse into their past and who they are. Well, most of them any way. Our Antoine and Marine, our protagonists are off to have a nice vacation together at a newly re-opened high-class hotel on a small remote island off the coast of Marseille. The proprietors Max and Cat-cat Le Bon have just spent a small fortune refurbishing the place, much of it their life savings, and that of a couple investors. One of which is an old school chum of Antoione’s, who is also there for the grand opening. There was a limited but wide-ranging cast of individuals. A washed up actor, his trophy wife, and her teenage son. A retired school teacher, Marine’s best friend and an American couple. There was also the hired help who came from a varied background. The innocent local girl, the ex-con the hot dock boy plus a couple others. And lets not forget the crazy local who takes care of the historic lighthouse.This one had the murder take place fairly far into the book giving us a pretty good idea who the victim was going to be. Mostly because he’s the one we all wanted to die! There were several different suspects for several very different reasons. However, if you are paying attention it will appear pretty obvious who did it and even an idea of why. I didn’t consider this one a big mystery, but more of an interesting story of one man’s fate he brought upon himself.