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Isabelle Arbaud is determined to make her mark in the world of luxury brands. Most perfumes are off-shoots of established fashion houses (or celebrity names, but let's not go down ''that'' road), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the top. But – it would seem that someone is determined that she won't succeed. First on one and then a second of her financial backers died, the first in circumstances which might have been a accident, but probably wasn't. About the second there could be no doubt. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious death.
We first net Frank Guerin in [[Wasp-Waisted by David Barrie|Wasp-Waisted]] and he's still on temporary assignment to Paris's Major Crimes Unit. It's the second death which brings the case his way and the circumstances are difficult. The rivalry between the fashion houses is intense and it seems that most people will stop at nothing to get what they want. In complete contrast to the world of luxury brands Guerin has to fathom out why the case seems to involve the homeless of Paris – and in particular an enigmatic man who seems to be uncomfortably close to each crime.