Publisher's Synopsis
Edith was a gorgeous and keenly intelligent woman who lived on her boat in a peaceful port on the Marne just outside of Paris. When her body is found in the river beside her boat after a violent storm, the police suspect murder, and Christina Pastorino, a portly, middle-aged police officer who is also a gourmet cook,
interviews Edith's colorful fellow boaters. She learns that many of those boaters despised Edith, and that Edith had a sinister secret life.
