A birthday gift from my wonderful husband.

My husband gave me this book 2 years ago for my birthday because I really liked Peter May's Lewis Man trilogy. He didn't realize this was the fourth book in a series when he bought it but he agreed with me that I should probably read the previous books before I delved into this one. So that's why it has taken me 2 years to get to reading this birthday gift but I am glad I did because I know lots more about the main character, Enzo Macleod, than was covered in this book and it's those little details that add to the pleasure of reading a series.

Enzo is off to an island in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Brittany to try to solve another cold case from a book written by a journalist. This case is pretty cold as it occurred twenty years ago. However, since the victim urged his son's wife just before he was shot to leave his study just as it was until his son could get home from Africa and solve the clues, nothing has been touched because the son was accidentally killed in Africa just after his father was murdered. The victim was an amateur entomologist; we know from the beginning of the book that he obtained a sample of blood from the person he thought would kill him by having a mosquito bite the killer and then the mosquito was smashed on the pages of a book. Will Enzo find that clue and decipher all the rest or will he get sidetracked by the man everyone on the island thinks committed the murder? I had to keep reading in order to find out. Enzo is also contending with some women problems. His on and off Paris girlfriend wants to talk to him and the daughter-in-law of the murder victim is giving him unmistakeable hints that she would like to join him in bed. Wherever Enzo goes he seems to find lovely and smart women wanting to sleep with him. Quelle probleme!

Passed this book on to BellBelle this morning.

BellBelle brought this book back and took two more to read. I'm going to pass it on to my sister now.