Two younger, racier Miss Marples… American expats in Paris, live out their dreams with no more than the usual upset until financier Edgar Bowen drowns in his vichyssoise.

Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, and her former sister-in-law, Sarah, Duchess of York, also visited St James's Palace. In Paris, thousands of people visited the site of the crash and the hospital where Diana died, leaving bouquets, candles and messages. I have a hypothesis that everybody has another country that’s not the country they were born in and not the country that they live in, and when I went to Paris, I was just very comfortable there.

Meaux prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier said the mother and two daughters, ages seven and 10, were stabbed several times overnight from Sunday to Monday. As the two Americans immerse themselves in Edgar’s upper-class world, the list of suspects grows: Could it have been his son, who inherited his money and lavish apartment?

The attacker, known to authorities and in treatment for mental illness, shouted "Allahu Akbar" – Arabic for "God is greatest" – at the moment of the attack, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said at the scene by Bir Hakeim bridge over the River Seine.I loved the references of police detective movies and tv shows throughout the book as the two tried to solve this case with absolutely no prior experience. The inquests officially began on 2 October 2007 with the swearing of a jury of six women and five men.