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When American sleuth Rachel Levis stumbles upon an employee of the French national library strangled in the bathroom of a cafe, she's not surprised to be asked to help with the investigation by her old acquaintance Capitaine Boussicault - after all, she and her best friend Magda solved a tricky murder only 18 months before. But right from the start, this case proves to be très difficile.

When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, is alarmed by the unnatural death. Who dies eating a nice vichyssoise? But when she overhears a mourner at his funeral describing the circumstances of his death, something sounds even stranger: Edgar loathed rosé. If he wasn’t drinking it, who was?

Parisian summers are for strolls in the park...and solving a murder or two. When American sleuth Rachel Levis stumbles upon an employee of the French national library strangled in the bathroom of a cafe, she's not surprised to be asked to help with the investigation by her old acquaintance Capitaine Boussicault - after all, she and her best friend Magda solved a tricky murder only 18 months before. But right from the start, this case proves to be très difficile.

When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, is alarmed by the unnatural death. Who dies eating a nice vichyssoise? But when she overhears a mourner at his funeral describing the circumstances of his death, something sounds even stranger: a bottle of rose was on the dining table when he died. The only problem: Edgar loathed rose. If he wasn't drinking it, who was? After the police rule the death accidental, Rachel knows it's up to her and her best friend, Magda, to investigate.

Der Banker Edgar Bowen ist in einer köstlichen Vichyssoise ertrunken. Als sie von seinem unglücklichen Tod in der Suppe erfährt, erinnert sich Rachel voller Nostalgie an ihre ersten Jahre in Paris, in denen ihr Edgar den Zauber dieser Stadt gezeigt hat. Doch auf dem Begräbnis hört sie, dass neben dem Suppenteller eine Flasche Rosé gestanden hatte, und weiß sofort: Da stimmt etwas nicht. Denn Edgar war nicht nur ihr erster Liebhaber, sondern vor allem leidenschaftlicher Rosé- Verschmäher!