A riad with no sign. A dead man in the courtyard. And a nine-hundred-year-old tile someone killed to keep.
It took Wren Ashby forty minutes and one very patient boy on a bicycle to find Riad Zafrani - because in the Marrakech medina the best doors have no signs and every straight line turns into a secret. She came for the tilework, the tagine, and the maze. She did not expect to find Tariq dead in the courtyard by morning.
Behind every carved door is a half-truth: a smooth Parisian dealer, a priceless stolen zellige, a family with something to protect. With Fig padding beside her - when he deigns to walk at all - Wren follows the pattern through the souks to the one answer someone built an entire labyrinth to hide.
For readers who like their mysteries vivid, their settings labyrinthine, and their sleuths trailed by a small dog who refuses to walk.
A Deadly Detour to Marrakech is Book 5 of the Deadly Detour cozy mysteries - a new city and a complete case every time. Read them in any order.