. >> cedric fabre is a marseille crime writer who spent decades writing about crime and corruption, pastisospherics and lurid history. why do you think it's such a fertile ground to set a crime novel? >> for me it's more interesting because you write about the place you live in. i work in the street, i have an idea, et cetera. i couldn't write about things because i have to know the real part of the city, the people. >> here it's a really interesting stew of characters. >> in marseille there is a very poor area and a very rich area. the difference between these two areas is the worlds in france so that makes an interesting city because when we write crime novels, we write both the differences between the poor people, the rich people, et cetera, so that's interesting. >> le femina, an algerian restaurant with some of the better couscous in town, and since it's a very filling dish and i only got one crack at it, i go for the royale. what else? vegetables, chickpeas, merguez sausage, chicken, chunks of lamb, and meatballs. what everybody says, everybody sees themselves as marseillaise first a

all gone through it is hard to hold it together from our girls and not want to break down because it fabred than they do. --because if i break down then they do. >> catherine: new at eight. tourism and the city of sausalito is the headline topic at a meeting tonight. one man is bonds and an initiative he hopes to make the june ballot. he called on the city council to create a plan to deal with the impact of tourism. kron4 to delete this job is like on-site the spinnaker where the meeting is wrapping up. philippe? >> reporter: that is right kaplan. the meeting started at all ross 7:00 and it is winding down as we speak derrick at least 250 people showed up mostly business owners and those living here take a look inside. >> reporter: those attendance at to sign the petition to get this initiative on the ballot. so far, the sponsor says he has collected about 300 signatures derrick and he needs 500 by january for the initiative to make it. with increased tourism in the area. >> reporter: arrested downtown is getting crowded in keeping some residents from even visiting downtown because of the