Jules Hooker is doing her best to adjust to the new normal of a world without electricity, electronics, cars or the chance to return home. Stranded in the charming but provincial village of Chabanel wasn’t terrible until Jules discovers Aix-en-Provence and decides that the big city lights—even when they’ve gone out in the apocalypse—are much preferable to the countryside.
Of course with a big city comes big city crimes and when a fellow American is accused of murdering a popular pastry chef in Aix, Jules knows she has to help.
Unfortunately tracking a dangerous killer when you don’t know the language—or the French people themselves—soon has Jules bumbling into one dangerous situation after another.
All the wonderful pastries aside, will this be lights out for Jules too?
Susan Kiernan-Lewis is an award-winning mystery and suspense writer and the author of the bestselling Maggie Newberry Mysteries. She has also written the popular post-apocalyptic thriller series The Irish End Games and The Stranded in Provence Mysteries. An advertising copywriter for most of her career, she has worked in ad agencies from Atlanta to Auckland. Growing up as an Air Force dependent, she also has lived in a variety of cultures—including a quaint French village where she attended the local school. She lives in Florida with her husband, two dogs and a cat.