A cosy crime series in which young Beaux-Arts students Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet investigate…

Montmartre, 1864. The Auberge du Clou has become a refuge for penniless artists, who pay for their meals by hanging their paintings on the walls.

But bohemian carefree living has its limits. Several regulars have been killed. And with each disappearance, the same inexplicable detail: on the walls of the inn, someone has swapped the positions of two paintings. Tomaschet, the owner, has only one hope left. Two young patrons as broke as they are talented, who have already solved a murder: Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Behind each disappearance seems to lie a coded message, hanging on the walls of Le Clou, whose secrets only the eyes of artists could decipher…

Léonie Vilbert is the pseudonym of a French crime novelist who divides his time between Sarthe, Paris, and the rest of the world. He is the author of three multi-award-winning crime novels in large format.