The French Paradox
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In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th century female artist. She also had a romantic relationship with Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery's French grandfather - until recently, a well-kept secret.
Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie's neighbor and Jackie's schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC museum. And Lucie's grandfather is flying to Virginia for Cricket's 90th birthday party, hosted by her daughter Harriet. A washed-up journalist, Harriet is rewriting a manuscript Jackie left behind about Marie-Antoinette and her portraitist. She's also adding tell-all details about Jackie, sure to make the book a bestseller.
Then on the eve of the party a world-famous landscape designer who also knew Jackie is found dead in Lucie's vineyard. Did someone make good on the death threats he'd received because of his controversial book on climate change? Or was his murder tied to Jackie, the paintings, and Lucie's beloved grandfather?
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Ellen Crosby. (2021). The French Paradox. Severn House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ellen Crosby. 2021. The French Paradox. Severn House.
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Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie's neighbor and Jackie's schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC museum. And Lucie's grandfather is flying to Virginia for Cricket's 90th birthday party, hosted by her daughter Harriet. A washed-up journalist, Harriet is rewriting a manuscript Jackie left behind about Marie-Antoinette and her portraitist. She's also adding tell-all details about Jackie, sure to make the book a bestseller.
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Imagined revelations about Jacqueline Kennedy's early life provide a brilliant background for a tale of treachery and deceit. What could be more shocking than vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery's discovery of her grandmother's diaries describing her grandfather Luc's 1949 Parisian affair with Jackie Bouvier? Only the realization that they may provide a motive for murder. Garden designer Parker Lord, an old family friend who's been getting nasty feedback on his recently published apocalyptic view of climate change, has found time to cross popular gardening center owner Gabriel Seely by accusing him of fudging a postdoc research paper. Parker offers to look at some of Lucie's sickly grapevines, but the visit backfires, and she finds him dead among the vines. Meantime, Lucie's grandfather arrives from France for the 90th birthday party of Jackie's school friend Cricket Delacroix, whose daughter, Harry, has a contract to complete a book based on papers Jackie left Cricket that detail the lives of underrated women artists. Harry plans to use entries from Jackie's diary mentioning her romance with Luc to juice her book sales. And Lucie's wild-child sister, Mia, suddenly returned from New York with a strikingly handsome boyfriend, is hired to paint a mural for the party. Since Parker was killed near Mia's cottage, she's one of several people Lucie must consider a possible killer. The lifestyles of the rich and famous dovetail neatly with art history in Crosby's newest character-driven mystery.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Lucie Montgomery, owner of Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Virginia, is devastated when longtime family friend, landscape designer Parker Lord, is found dead on her property, and her sister, Mia, is a suspect in his murder. Other suspects include his husband, Ash, and Gabriel Seely, a scientist whose work Parker publicly disputed, leading to Seely's loss of funding. Or is it a reader angry over Parker's recent book on climate change? Complicating matters, Lucie deals with dying grapevines; concern over her sister's secretive boyfriend, Sergio; and her apprehension that her grandfather's relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Paris just after the war will be made public. Lucie gathers information, puts the pieces together, and ultimately identifies the killer. Richly framed with details of Onassis' life, the business of book publishing, information on the Old Mistresses (forgotten female artists who were the equal of the Old Masters), Marie Antoinette, life in well-healed northern Virginia, and the particulars of running a winery, this entry in the long-running cozy series, with its sympathetic main character, will please fans.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie's neighbor and Jackie's schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC museum. And Lucie's grandfather is flying to Virginia for Cricket's 90th birthday party, hosted by her daughter Harriet. A washed-up journalist, Harriet is rewriting a manuscript Jackie left behind about Marie-Antoinette and her portraitist. She's also adding tell-all details about Jackie, sure to make the book a bestseller.
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