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Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN on tour: Requiem in Yquem
Authors Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN
are back on France Book Tours!
Check here for their previous books
meet again the famous wine maker detective with this 13th volume!
NB: each volume can be read as a standalone
Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN
on Tour
September 11-22
with
Requiem in Yquem
(mystery)
Release date: September 12, 2017
at Le French Book
215 pages
ISBN: 9781943998104
SYNOPSIS
The intricate taste of greed and remorse.
The “addictive” Winemaker Detective series returns with a French mystery set in Sauternes, home of one of the world’s finest dessert wines, Yquem, known to some as liquid gold.
In the mist-covered hills of Sauternes, where the wine is luscious and the landscape beguiling, the brutal murder of an elderly couple intrigues the wine expert Benjamin Cooker and awakens memories for his dashing assistant Virgile Lanssien. Drawn into the investigation, the two journey through the storied Sauternes countryside, where the Château d’Yquem has reigned for centuries. Will the murder go unexplained and the killer remain free? The Winemaker Detective’s discernment and incessant curiosity pushes investigators to look deeper, while Virgile rekindles memories of his days at school and questions the meaning of his life.
In another satisfying wine novel with a French flair, authors Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen give readers a perfectly intoxicating combination French wine, gourmet meals, and mystery in the gloriously described Sauternes wine region with all the scenery, scents, and sounds of France. This light, fun mystery combines amateur sleuths, food, and wine in a wonderfully French mystery novel that doubles as a travel guide.
It is a new kind read on the international mystery and crime scene: a pitch-perfect, wine-infused, French-style cozy mystery.
Made for TV
The series is being adapted to television in France,
attracting an audience of over 4 million.
The series is a huge success in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Blood of the Vine is also available on DVD, with English subtitles.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
©David Nakache
Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen,
the authors of the Winemaker Detective series
are epicures.
Jean-Pierre Alaux is a magazine, radio and TV journalist
when he is not writing novels in southwestern France. |
He is the grandson of a winemaker
and exhibits a real passion for wine and winemaking.
For him, there is no greater common denominator than wine.
He gets a sparkle in his eye when he talks about the Winemaker Detective mystery series,
which he coauthors with Noël Balen.
Noël lives in Paris, where he shares his time between writing,
making records, and lecturing on music.
He plays bass, is a music critic,
and has authored a number of books about musicians
in addition to his prolific novel and short-story writing.
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ABOUT THE 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 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 University of Colorado Boulder. She has worked in scientific, legal and literary translation; her literary translations include Operatic Arias; Singers Edition, and Reality and the Untheorizable by Clément Rosset, along with a number of titles in the Winemaker Detective series. She also served as the interpreter for the government cabinet of Rwanda and translated for Dian Fossey’s Digit Fund. In addition to her passion for French, she has studied Italian at Colorado University, in Rome and in Siena. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband.
VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE
Monday, September 11
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Books Are Cool
Tuesday, September 12
Spotlight + Giveaway at An Accidental Blog
Wednesday, September 13
Review by Shree
Thursday, September 14
Review by Denise
Tuesday, September 19
Review by Andrea
Wednesday, September 20
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Locks, Hooks and Books
Thursday, September 21
Review + Giveaway at Libri Amori Miei
Friday, September 22
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace
You can enter the global giveaway here
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Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter/Facebook,
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Enter here
Visit each blogger on the tour:
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of the Tour will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]
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 to all
2 winners
July 13, 2017
WordsAndPeace
8 Comments
Categories: Cozy mystery, Detective, Mystery, Suspense, whodunit
Ciji Ware on tour: That Spring in Paris
Ciji Ware
on Tour
August 15-28
with
That Spring in Paris
(women’s fiction / romance)
Release date: May 25, 2017
at Lion’s Paw Publishing
ISBN: 978-0988940871
ebook: 978-0988940864
468 pages
SYNOPSIS
Two Americans literally collide at the entrance to a Paris hospital, each desperately searching for friends felled in the same unspeakable tragedy.
Patrick Finley Deschanel, an expatriate former U.S. Air Force pilot, quit the military after a career flying helicopter rescue missions in the Middle East. Now resident on a classic barge moored on the Seine, Finn is a man with both physical battle scars and psychic wounds that overshadow his day-to-day encounters at every turn.
Juliet Thayer is a fledgling landscape painter who seeks escape from a tyrannical older brother and her job at his violent video war games company in San Francisco. Her emergency trip to Paris also raises doubts as to her impending engagement to a colleague where she serves as packaging design director and “Chief Branding Officer” of GatherGames, a highly speculative enterprise in which her parents are heavily invested.
As Finn and Juliet form a tenuous attachment in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that traumatized the French capital November 13, 2015, they wonder if the “City of Light” can provide a path out of the darkness for two emotional exiles who fear–along with the world at large—that their universe has descended into a permanent state of chaos and that the renewal of spring might never come.
New York Times bestselling novelist and Emmy-award winning news producer Ciji Ware displays her formidable skill at weaving fact and fiction–delivering a gripping story about the discovery of love and regained serenity in the wake of horrifying events.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ciji Ware,
a graduate of Harvard University in History,
is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author
of historical and contemporary fiction,
and two works of nonfiction.
An Emmy-award winning
former radio and TV broadcaster for 23 years in Los Angeles,
her numerous writing accolades include a Dorothy Parker Award of excellence,
and being short-listed for the Willa [Cather] Literary Award.
Her family circle includes a husband of many decades,
a grown son and daughter-in-law, and now two grandsons under four,
along with a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Cholly Knickerbocker.
Ware lives in a cottage by the sea on San Francisco Bay.
Visit her website
Follow her on Facebook and Twitter
Buy the book: Amazon | B&N Nook | iBook | Kobo
VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE
Tuesday, August 15
Review by Shree
Wednesday, August 16
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway at Queen of All She Reads
Thursday, August 17
Review + Giveaway at An Accidental Blog
Friday, August 18
Review + Giveaway at Locks, Hooks and Books
Tuesday, August 22
Review + Giveaway at Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile
Thursday, August 24
Review by Grass Monster
Friday, August 25
Review + Giveaway at LibriAmoriMiei
Monday, August 28
Spotlight + Giveaway at Words And Peace
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.Enter here
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 to all
2 winners
July 11, 2017
WordsAndPeace
14 Comments
Categories: expat, Family life, Fiction, Paris, Romance, Travel, Women's fiction
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