Jean-Philippe Blondel on his second Tour with: The 6:41 to Paris

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After his very successful tour,

Jean-Philippe Blondel

is back for a second on  Tour!

January 25-29, 2016

with

641to_paris_digital-3-900x1200The 6:41 to Paris

(fiction)

 Release date: December 1, 2015
at New Vessel Press

146  pages

ISBN: 978-1939931269

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

Cecile, a stylish 47-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she’s exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it’s soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation 30 years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles towards the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face to face journey—In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?—with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This is a brilliant psychological thriller, a high-wire act of emotions on rails, about past romance, with all its pain and promise. [provided by the publisher]

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

portrait de Jean-philippe Blondel 

Jean-Philippe Blondel
was born in 1964 in Troyes, France
where he lives as an author and English teacher.
His novel The 6:41 to Paris
has been a bestseller in both France and Germany.

 ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Alison Anderson is a novelist and translator of literature from French. Among the authors she has translated are JMG Le Clézio, Christian Bobin, Muriel Barbery and Amélie Nothomb. She has lived in Northern California and currently lives in a village in Switzerland.
 
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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, January 25
Review at Svetlana’s Reads and Views

Wednesday, January 27
Review + Giveaway at An Accidental Blog

Thursday, January 28
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at
Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile

Friday, January 29
Review + Giveaway at Readerbuzz

 

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Late Harvest Havoc: print release day today

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Today is the print

release day of

Late Harvest Havoc

Late Harvest Havoc

(mystery)

 Release date: December 15, 2015
at Le French Book

169  pages

ISBN: 9781939474599

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

Vineyard revenge.
Winter is in the air in Alsace and local customs are sowing trouble, piquing the curiosity of the famous winemaker from Bordeaux, Benjamin Cooker. While the wine expert and his assistant Virgile settle into their hotel in the old city of Colmar, distinguished vineyards are attacked. Is it revenge?
The plot thickens when estates with no apparent connection to one another suffer the same sabotage just days prior to the late harvest. All of Alsace is in turmoil, plunged in the grip of suspicion that traces its roots back to the darkest hours of the German occupation. As he crosses back and forth into Germany from the Alsace he thought he knew so well, Cooker discovers a land of superstition, rivalry, and jealousy. Between tastings of the celebrated wines, he is drawn into the lives and intrigues of the inhabitants.

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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

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©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

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.
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France Book Tours stops for December 14-20

French Illusions Monday, December 14
Review + Giveaway
at The Discerning Reader

Tuesday, December 15
Spotlight + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Book Nerd

Wednesday, December 16
Spotlight + Guest-Post + Giveaway
at Words And Peace

Thursday, December 17
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Friday, December 18
Review + Giveaway
at LibriAmoriMiei
Spotlight + Giveaway
at Book And Ink

Saturday, December 19
Review
at Coffee, Chocolate or Tennis

Blood Rose Angel Monday, December 14
Review + Interview + Giveaway
at I’d Rather Be Reading

Tuesday, December 15
Review + Giveaway
at It’s a Mad Mad World

Wednesday, December 16
Review + Giveaway
at LibriAmoriMiei

Friday, December 18
Review
at Bookramblings

Sunday, December 20
Review + Giveaway
at Book And Ink

winemaker omnibus1 Wednesday, December 16
Spotlight and giveaway
at Fuonlyknew