Claire Baskerville is a sixty-something newly widowed American who finds herself living and working in Paris as a private investigator for the English-speaking expat community.
In spite of a genetic brain anomaly that makes it impossible for her to remember faces even ones she'd seen just moments beforeClaire tackles the cases that the cops aren't interested in solving. She does it with American know-how and dogged perseverance. Along the way she discovers that life in the City of Light can be a new beginningin every way that makes life pleasurableeven for a woman of a certain age.