Expensive Habits Pb [Paperback] Mayle, Peter

A charming rogue with a taste for the finer things, a missing fortune, and a cast of eccentric millionaires colliding in the South of France — Peter Mayle serves up a caper as smooth as a glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. When a PR man is hired to polish the image of a vulgar tycoon, he stumbles into a world of absurd wealth, suspicious characters, and a scheme that's too good to be legal. Mayle, who later gave us *A Year in Provence*, brings the same eye for sun-soaked detail and wry humor to this early novel, but swaps the memoir for a heist-adjacent romp. The Riviera has never looked so appealing or so deliciously corrupt. Perfect for readers who like their crime fiction witty rather than gritty, and anyone who's ever fantasized about a villa, a yacht, and a plan that might just work.