Francie LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of Fran ois Le Villard, the renowned detective with the Deuxi me Bureau in Paris who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. Francie got her professional start on the East Coast, working in television news. But after ten years in the biz, during which time she picked up a number of prestigious awards for her journalism, Francie decided that she'd had enough of the style-over-substance attitude...