"More gauze than grit...more Stephanie Plum than Philip Marlowe."-The Thrilling Detective Website

A deadbeat dad, a French flirt, and a meddling ex. Lora Weaver's new life is in for a bumpy start!

Lora Weaver follows romance from New York to Montréal expecting to find a touch of Paris in North America—cobblestone streets, sidewalk cafés, fabulous shopping, and a little joie de vivre. Not dangerous liaisons.

But, when she takes a job at a PI agency owned by a French brother and sister team, her life takes on more twists and turns than a Cirque du Soleil show.
Her latest brush with danger kicks off the case of Piedro “Puddles” Bellinni—a deadbeat dad whose disappearance is linked to a little girl, a socialite about to inherit a fortune, and a would-be thug whose ego ends up nearly as dented as his car.

With the PI agency hired to find Puddles in time to attend his daughter’s upcoming nuptials, Lora sets out to prove she’s up to the task.

Amid car chases and stakeouts, Lora also juggles office antics and an unexpected houseguest—a meddlesome, flirty old friend of her live-in boyfriend Adam..

Can Lora set things right at home and solve the case before her first foray in the PI biz becomes her last?

With a cast of characters that includes Camille Caron—a French PI with sharp boots, an even sharper tongue, and whose confidence and poise come from knowing how to drop a man twice her size—and her brother Laurent, an ex-cop and hockey hottie, The First Faux Pas blends cozy crime with romantic frisson and a splash of French charm in this fast-paced, rom-com mystery romp.