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Opening your find
A dead man on the last train. An old ticket from a vanished week. A border that has kept its secrets for too long. When retired customs officer René Valette is found dead on the last train from Menton to Ventimiglia, the case appears almost too simple: an elderly man, a weak heart, a quiet collapse before the Italian border.
But Commandant Julien Ferrand has learned to distrust simple deaths. Valette's apartment has been searched. A locked metal box is missing. And in his pocket is an old railway ticket carried for more than twenty years—with a single name written on the back. A name that should have stayed buried.
Ferrand and Lieutenant Camille Roche reconstruct the dead man's final journey across the French-Italian border, working alongside Italian investigators as the case leads through old customs posts, forgotten arrangements, and secrets protected on both sides of the frontier.
But the investigation soon brushes against an old wound Ferrand has never managed to close. And this time, the past may be closer than he thinks.
The Last Train to Ventimiglia is the third book in The Menton Mysteries, an atmospheric French Riviera police procedural series featuring complete investigations, recurring characters, and a deeper mystery unfolding across the series.
Perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric European mysteries, cross-border investigations, Mediterranean settings, and slow-burning suspense.
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