Murder with a French Accent: An Alex Kertész Mystery

Microbiologist Alex Kertész has developed a commercially valuable strain of bacteria in his laboratory at the University of Jerusalem. When a small French company acquires the rights to the organism a working visit by Alex is part of the deal. Alex arrives in Toulouse expecting the visit to be a waste of everybody's time. He doesn't expect to find himself about as welcome as bubonic plague or to have the equipment blow up in his face. But that's not the worst of it, because beneath the placid surface at Agrogénie simmers a brew of envy, suspicion and deceit that is about to come to a boil.