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Title: Nice idea/Pedestrian execution
Review: Having lived in Toulouse and traveled extensively throughout the south of France, I wanted to give Wan a try for both the setting of her mystery and the interesting connection it made to a rare orchid. Unfortunately, while the description of the area and the idea of a search for a rare orchid were interesting, the book was less than well written; the storyline most pedestrian and predictable. I would not recommend this work to a reader who likes the mysteries of Henning Mankell, Ake Edwardson, Karin Fossum, Qiu Xiaolong, Peter Robinson, P.D. James, Elizabeth George, Philip Kerr, Sjowall and Wahloo, Rebecca Pawel, Donna Leon, or Andrea Camilleri.
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