Colleen Cambridge: A Murder Most French
An American in Paris #2
A Murder Most French is the second book in Colleen Cambridge’s delightful American in Paris Mystery series featuring Tabitha Knight, the fictitious best friend of Julia Child. The book is set in 1950, as Paris is recovering from World War II and the German occupation. Tabitha, the daughter of an American police officer father and a French mother, grew up in a Detroit suburb and was a Rosie the Riveter during the war. In the first book in the series, Mastering the Art of French Murder, she accepted an invitation to go to Paris to stay with her maternal grandfather and his partner, Oncle Rafe. Tabitha loves her two “messieurs,” but she is not a good cook and is unable to make the French meals they love. Very luckily for her, she becomes friends with her neighbor, none other than Julia Child, and learns to cook under her direction. Without Julia, however, Tabitha is still hopeless in the kitchen. Julia loves to use the spacious kitchen in Tabitha’s grandfather’s mansion, which is much larger than her own tiny kitchen, so she often comes to the house to cook, and everyone gets a delicious meal.