Waiting in Paris

<p>Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Among the rich of Paris there are opportunities for thieves and forgers such as Vadim Bergeron a predator who delights in destroying the reputations of true artists and the naïve women who love them. However one private detective has spent years recruiting waiters and chefs to build a reliable although eclectic network of informants. Within days of an art theft he can count on clues arriving during dinner: a note slipped under his dessert plate an address scribbled on a receipt a suggestion of where an object might be fenced or the name of a potential buyer whispered in his ear along with a…<em>Will there be anything else Monsieur? </em>Catching art thieves has become this Paris sleuth's <em>raison d'etre</em> and Simon Pennington is determined Olivette Ferrier will become Vadim Bergeron's last victim.</p>