PI Mac Reilly the star of TVs Mac Reillys Malibu Mysteries and hisfiancee Sunny Alvarez are looking forward to spending June at Chez LaViolette a villa theyve r... » 

PI Mac Reilly the star of TVs Mac Reillys Malibu Mysteries and hisfiancee Sunny Alvarez are looking forward to spending June at Chez LaViolette a villa theyve rented in St. Tropez. Sunny arrives first only todiscover that theyve been scammed along with a number of others who thoughtthey were renting a fancy house on the French Riviera among them Belinda Lordthe estranged wife of a Russian mobster and widower Billy Bashford a Texasrancher and his eightyearold daughter Laureen. After Mac arrives Sunny andMac decamp to the nearby Hotel des Reves where they help protect Belinda fromher nasty husband and become entangled in some art thefts in St. Tropez. Anenchanting subplot involving the cute but realistic Laureen who befriends anabandoned 11yearold boy staying at the hotel lifts an escapist eclair intosomething more substantial from authors web site. «