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 27 best-selling novels by Jean Failler, who sets his mysteries in towns all over Brittany. 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.