Mary Lester is a French police lieutenant in

Quimper, but she has been sent to Saint-Malo to

investigate a beautiful young woman's death.

The local superintendent concluded that the

woman died of natural causes. Mary, who is

both inquisitive and independent, thinks he is

dead wrong. Not only that, but unless she takes

decisive action, more lives may be lost.

Intrepid investigator Mary Lester is the heroine

of a series of 21 best-selling novels by Jean

Failler, who sets his mysteries in towns all over

Britrany. In the last ten years, he has sold a

million copies of the Mary Lester books, several

of which have been dramatized on French TV.

Mayhem in Saint-Malo is the first to be

published in English.