Archive for March, 2015

Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen on Tour: Mayhem in Margaux

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Authors Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

are featured for the 6th time on France Book Tours!
After Treachery in Bordeaux,
Grand Cru Heist,
Nightmare in Burgundy,
Deadly Tasting,
Cognac Conspiracies,
meet again the famous wine maker detective with this 5th volume!

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Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

on  Tour

May 6-15

with

Mayhem-in-Margaux

Mayhem in Margaux

(cozy mystery)

 Release date: May 14, 2015
at Le French Book

153  pages

ISBN: 978-1939474384

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

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 the dirty secrets hiding behind some of Bordeaux’s finest grand cru classé wines from Margaux. [provided by the publisher]

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An episode in a long successful French mysteries series
that is a hit television series now in its fourth season
and attracting an audience of over 4 million.
The series is a huge success in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alaux-Balen

©David Nakache

 

Jean-Pierre Alaux
and Noël Balen,
wine lover and music lover respectively,
came up with the idea
for the Winemaker Detective series
while sharing a meal,
with a bottle of Château Gaudou 1996,
a red wine from Cahors
with smooth tannins and a balanced nose.

 ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Translator 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. She has translated several titles in this series.
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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Wednesday, May 6
Review + Giveaway at For the Hook of a Book

Thursday, May 7
Spotlight + Giveaway at Just One More Chapter

Friday, May 8
Review + Giveaway at It’s a Mad Mad World

Saturday, May 9
Spotlight + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Sunday, May 10
Spotlight + Giveaway at View From the Birdhouse

Monday, May 11
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Thursday, May 14
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Friday, May 15
Review + Giveaway at Unshelfish
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Libri Amori Miei

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You can enter the global giveaway here
or on any other book blogs participating in this tour.
Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter/Facebook,
they are listed in the entry form below
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Entry-Form

Visit each blogger on the tour:
tweeting about the giveaway everyday
of the Tour will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

Global giveaway open internationally:
2 US residents will win a print copy of this book
3 residents of any country will receive a digital copy

 

 

Quicksand: release day today

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Today is the official

release day of

Quicksand-final-cover

Quicksand:
A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery

(cozy mystery)

Release date: March 10, 2015
at Henery Press
280 pages

ISBN: 9781941962275

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SYNOPSIS

A thousand-year-old secret room. A sultan’s stolen treasure. A missing French priest. And an invitation to Paris to rekindle an old flame…

Historian Jaya Jones finds herself on the wrong side of the law during an art heist at the Louvre. To redeem herself, she follows clues from an illuminated manuscript that lead from the cobblestone streets of Paris to the quicksand-surrounded fortress of Mont Saint-Michel. With the help of enigmatic Lane Peters and a 90-year-old stage magician, Jaya delves into France’s colonial past in India to clear her name and catch a killer.  (provided by the author)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Gigi PandianUSA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian
is the child of cultural anthropologists from New Mexico
and the southern tip of India.
After being dragged around the world during her childhood,
she tried to escape her fate when she left a PhD program for art school.
But adventurous academics wouldn’t stay out of her head.
Thus was born the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series
(Artifact, Pirate Vishnu, and Quicksand).
Gigi’s debut mystery novel was awarded a Malice Domestic Grant
and named a “Best of 2012” Debut Novel by Suspense Magazine.
Her short fiction has been short-listed for Agatha and Macavity awards,
and she also writes the new Accidental Alchemist mystery series.
She takes photos of gargoyles wherever she goes, and posts them on her Gargoyle Girl blog.

Visit her website. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter

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Visit her Gargoyle photography blog: http://www.gargoylegirl.com

Buy the bookAmazon  |  Barnes & Noble  | Kobo  | Itunes  | Google Play

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France Book Tours stops for March 9-15

The Keys of the Watchmen Monday, March 9
Review + Giveaway
at Words And Peace 

Wednesday, March 11

Review + Interview

at The Avid Reader

Thursday, March 12

Review + Excerpt + Giveaway

at Book Nerd

Friday, March 13

Review + Giveaway

at The Victorian Librarian

Saturday, March 14

Review + Giveaway

at LibriAmoriMiei

Review + Giveaway

at It’s A Mad Mad World

Sunday, March 15

Review + Giveaway

at Unshelfish

Shadow_Ritual Tuesday, March 10
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Book Nerd 

Wednesday, March 11

Review

at With Her Nose Stuck in a Book

Friday, March 13

Review

at Svetlana’s Reads and Views

The Witch of Painted Sorrows cover Sunday, March 15
Review + Giveaway
at The Book Binder’s Daughter