Order of M.L. Longworth Books
M.L. Longworth is an Canadian author who is best known as the author of the Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal Mystery series. She writes detective novels set in Aix-en-Provence where she spends much of her time writing them.
Longworth was born in Toronto, but would move to Aix-en-Provence in 1997. She now splits her time between Aix and Paris where she teaches writing at NYU Paris. When she is not writing or teaching, Longworth enjoys cooking and traveling to places where wine is grown.
Publication Order of Verlaque and Bonnet Books
| Death at the Chateau Bremont | (2011) |    |
| Murder in the Rue Dumas | (2012) | |
| Death in the Vines | (2013) | |
| Murder on the Île Sordou | (2014) | |
| The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne | (2015) | |
| The Curse of La Fontaine | (2017) | |
| The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche | (2018) | |
| A Noël Killing | (2019) | |
| The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral | (2021) | |
| Disaster at the Vendome Theater | (2022) | |
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The first book in the Verlaque and Bonnet is called Death at the Chateau Bremont. This book starts the story with a local man named Étienne de Bremont falling to his death at the family chateau. The death sets the town reeling and the cheif magristrate of Aix, Antoine Verlaque, suspects foul play is involved. Things get complicate for Verlaque when he finds out his on-again/off-again girlfriend Marine Bonnet was a good friend of the victim. He’ll ask her for help in the matter and the two will work together to find out what happened. As they begin to suspect that it was not an accident, but instead a murder – another murder happens that leaves no doubt. The two will need to work fast before the killer gets away.
Another popular book in the series is called The Curse of La Fontaine. The title of this refers to the name of a new restaurant in Aix-en-Provence and the the new owner Chef Valets quickly finds himself in trouble with the new neighbors as he looks to extend his restaurants seating. He is undeterred until he starts receiving some threatening letters and the fountain starts working. Is he cursed? Or is someone out to get him? Verlaque and Bonnet will help him find out.