"Murder in the Rue Dumas" by M L Longworth - after a couple of disappointing chick lit reads I've gone back to cosy crime in nice places, and this 2nd book in M L Longworth's series of crime novels set in beautiful Aix-en-Provence in southern France worked well. When a university professor is murdered after his supposed retirement party, at which he announced he's not retiring after all, there are quite a few suspects, as there was strong competition for his post, and also for the prestigious Dumas scholarship, both of which had several contenders. Judge Antoine Verlague has his work cut out trying to wade through the suspects as well as all the in-fighting at the university, and during the book his investigations take him further afield, up to Paris and then into Italy. At this stage his relationship with lecturer Marine Bonnet is still in it's early stages and as a result is a bit on and off, and he has a fractious relationship with her mother, which results in some humour. Overall I enjoyed this, it was a gentle crime tale with some lovely food descriptions and some good plot twists. 7/10