Synopses & Reviews
It's summer in Bordeaux. There's a heat wave, the vineyards are suffering, vintners are on edge, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker's daughter is visiting. A tragic car accident draws the Winemaker Detective and his assistant Virgile into a case where the stakes are very personal, and they uncover some dirty secrets hiding behind some of Bordeaux's finest grand cru classé wines from Margaux.
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"Fun and intriguing read." --Book Nerd on Deadly Tasting
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"Wine lovers and mystery lovers alike will enjoy this entertaining series, in which crime is a pretext for Epicurean moments in prestigious and renowned landscaped. Mayhem in Margaux takes readers on a tour of Médoc and its famous wine estates in the company of Benjamin, Virgile and Benjamin's daughter, Margaux. It offers very pleasant reading and a lot of information about winemaking." --Soleil vert
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"Will whet the appetite of fans of both Iron Chef and Murder, She Wrote." --Booklist on Treachery in Bordeaux
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"Alaux and Balen have invented 'criminoelogy' in this mix of detective stories and testimonials of a love for and knowledge about wine. Wine is the basis of each story, and the vineyards are much more than setting. The stories revolve around ambition, rivalries, resentment, passion, and backstabbing, along with aromas, tasting notes, and wine history--a captivating blend of investigation and discovering wine country." --WinetourisminFrance.com
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"Love it! Another success for the Winemaker Detective." --MarshallsLion
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"Travel to France and join Benjamin Cooker, her wife and daughter, their friends and his able assistant as they relish sought after wines and delectable food that will have you calling your travel agent as soon as you finish this delicious page turner." --5-star reader review
About the Author
Jean-Pierre Alaux is a magazine, radio and tele- vision journalist when he is not writing novels in southwestern France. He is a genuine wine and food lover, and won the Antonin Carême prize for his cookbook La Truffe sur le Soufflé, which he wrote with the chef Alexis Pélissou.Noël Balen lives in Paris, where he shares his time between writing, making re- cords, and lecturing on music. He plays bass, is a music critic and has authored a number of books about musicians in addition to his novel and short-story writing.Sally Pane studied French at State University of New York Oswego and the Sorbonne before receiving her Masters Degree in French Literature from the University of Colorado where she wrote Camus and the Americas: A Thematic Analysis of Three Works Based on His Journaux de Voyage. Her career includes more than twenty years of translating and teaching French and Italian at Berlitz and at Colorado University Boulder. She has translated a number of books in the Winemaker Detective series. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband.