The Saint-Tropez Vanishing: A Julian Vale Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255767243)

In Saint-Tropez, the rich don't disappear by accident.

When heiress Clara Arnaud walks off a Pampelonne beach club at dawn and never returns, her father wants the matter handled before the press catches the scent. He hires Julian Vale - a private investigator paid to work the cases that never reach a courtroom, for clients who would rather pay than explain.

The official version is simple. A rich girl, too much champagne, a dramatic gesture. It will pass.

Vale doesn't believe it.

What he finds beneath the Riviera's polished surface is harder to name and harder to leave alone - yachts that move when no one is watching, charter companies that exist only on paper, a journalist who has gone silent, a marina worker dead by morning.

Clara wasn't taken. She saw something.

And the world she came from - the villas, the brokers, the men who introduce other men at private parties - is built to make sure she is never heard from again.