Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen on Tour: Nightmare in Burgundy

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Nightmare in Burgundy

Authors Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

are featured for the 3rd time on France Book Tours!
After Treachery in Bordeaux, and Grand Cru Heist
meet again the famous wine maker detective with this 3rd volume!

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Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

on  Tour

April 7-11, 2014

with

Nightmare In Burgundy

(translated by Sally PANE)

Website | Goodreads

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Genre: whodunit/cozy mystery

BISAC cat.: Mystery/Detective

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e-release: March 18, 2014
ISBN: 978-1939474278

    p-release: July 31, 2014
ISBN: 978-1939474056
141 pages
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Available  as a Kindle book in March
Paper: pre-order from your local bookstore

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SYNOPSIS

The Winemaker Detective leaves his native Bordeaux to go to Burgundy for a dream wine-tasting trip to France’s other key wine-making region. Between Beaune, Dijon and Nuits-Saint-Georges, it turns into a troubling nightmare when he stumbles upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era. What do they mean? What dark secrets from the deep past are haunting the Clos de Vougeot? Does blood need to spill to sharpen people’s memory? [provided by the publisher]

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Praise for this series

“I love good mysteries. I love good wine.
So imagine my joy at finding a great mystery about wine,
and winemaking, and the whole culture of that fascinating world.
And then I find it’s the first of a series.
I can see myself enjoying many a bottle of wine
while enjoying the adventures of Benjamin Cooker
in this terrific new series.”
— William Martin, New York Times bestselling author
of Back Bay and The Lincoln Letter

The series is being adapted to television in France
and is a huge success in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Four episodes have currently been on the air.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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Jean-Pierre Alaux is a magazine, radio and television journalist
when he is not writing novels in southwestern France.
He is a genuine wine and food lover and recently won the Antonin Carême prize for his cookbook La Truffe sur le Soufflé, which he wrote with the chef Alexis Pélissou.
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 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 novel and short-story writing.

 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 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 worked in scientific, legal and literary translation; her literary translations include Operatic Arias; Singers Edition, and Reality and the Untheorizable by Clément Rosset.  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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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, April 7
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, April 8
Review + Excerpt+ Giveaway at Mommasez…

Wednesday, April 9
Review + Giveaway at I Am, Indeed
Review + Giveaway at Valli’s Book Den

Friday, April 11
Review at Books Are Cool

Vicki Lesage on Tour: Confessions of a Paris Party Girl

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Author Vicki Lesage

on Tour

March 31-April 9, 2014

with

Confessions of a Paris Party Girl

[memoir/humor]

 Release date: January 14, 2014
at Createspace

ISBN: 1494701529
238 pages
Also available as an ebook

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Purchase the book:
Amazon Paperback | Amazon Kindle

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SYNOPSIS

Wine, romance, and French bureaucracy – the ups and downs of an American’s life in Paris. This laugh-out-loud memoir is almost too funny to be true!

 Drinking too much bubbly. Meeting sappy Frenchmen who have girlfriends or are creeps or both. Encountering problème after problème with French bureaucracy. When newly-single party girl Vicki moved to Paris, she was hoping to taste wine, stuff her face with croissants, and maybe fall in love.

 In her first book, this long-time blogger and semi-professional drinker recounts the ups and downs of her life in Paris. Full of sass, shamefully honest admissions, and situations that seem too absurd to be true, Vicki makes you feel as if you’re stumbling along the cobblestones with her.

 Will she find love? Will she learn to consume reasonable amounts of alcohol? Will the French administration ever cut her a break? [provided by the author]

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vicki LesageVicki Lesage is an IT Director by day, writer by night.
And a full-time nerd.
She loves fondue, wine, math, and zombies.
She lives in Paris with her French husband and rambunctious son.

Get in touch:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, March 31
Review at Words And Peace

Wednesday, April 2
Review at An Accidental Blog

Thursday, April 3
Review at Book Nerd

Friday, April 4
Review + Excerpt at Books Are Cool
Interview and review at The French Village Diaries

Wednesday, April 9
Review at Lisa’s Yarns

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Paris, Rue des Martyrs: Official release day today

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Today is the official release day of
Paris, Rue des Martyrs!

Read more about it here

Please come back to visit the book bloggers starting March 3,
there will be giveaways for a chance to win this great book!
And we even have a couple of spots available
if you would like to review it yourself!

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Author Adria J. Cimino

will be on Tour

March 3-12, 2014

with

Paris, Rue des Martyrs

[literary fiction/contemporary fiction]

 Release date: February 10, 2014
by Ashley Grayson Literary Agency’s imprint “Agency Editions

286 pages

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If you would LOVE to read
this literary fiction/contemporary fiction
as an ebook
and are able to post your review
on YOUR blog
on one of these days,
March 3-12
please send me an email at francebooktours at gmail dot com
and fill in this form (only once).

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SYNOPSIS

There are encounters that make a difference. The paths of four strangers cross amid the beauty, squalor, animation and desolation found on a Parisian street called the Rue des Martyrs.
Each one faces some sort of struggle:
A young man’s search for his birth mother leads him to love and grim family secrets.
An unsatisfied housewife finds her world turned upside down by the promise of a passionate liaison.
An aging actor, troubled by the arrival of the son he abandoned years ago, must make a choice: either lose him forever or put aside pride and seek redemption.
A young woman, betrayed by her fiancé, travels to Paris to begin a new life and forget about love… at least that is her intention.
Four stories entwine, four quests become one. [provided by the author]

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Adria J. Cimino Adria J. Cimino worked as a journalist for more than a decade at news organizations
including the Associated Press and Bloomberg News. Adria, who grew up in the sunshine, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida.
She now lives in Paris
and enjoys sharing her adventures in the city and thoughts about the writing life in her blog “Adria in Paris.”
Her first novel, “Paris, Rue des Martyrs,” is set for release on Feb. 10, 2014.

Website | Blog  | Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter @Adria_in_Paris

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