Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

on  Tour

September 3-22

with

Authors Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

are featured for the 8th time on France Book Tours!
After Treachery in Bordeaux,
Grand Cru Heist,
Nightmare in Burgundy,
Deadly Tasting,
Cognac Conspiracies,
Mayhem in Margaux,
Flambé in Armagnac

meet again the famous wine maker detective with this 8th volume!

Montmartre Mysteries

(cozy mystery)

 Release date: September 3, 2015
at Le French Book

146  pages

ISBN: 978-1939474476

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

Wine expert Benjamin Cooker travels to the French capital, where his is called to help care for some vineyards in Montmartre, a neighborhood full of memories for him. He stops in on an old friend. Arthur Solacroup left the Foreign Legion to open a wine shop good enough to be in the Cooker Guide. But an attempted murder brings the past back into the present. But which past? The winemaker detective and his assistant Virgile want to know more, and their investigation leads them from the sands of Djibouti to the vineyards of Côte du Rhône. [provided by the publisher]

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

©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.

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Thursday, September 3
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Friday, September 4
Review + Giveaway at Queen of All She Reads
Review + Giveaway at The Discerning Reader

Saturday, September 5
Spotlight + Excerpt + Giveaway at Mystery Playground

Sunday, September 6
Review + Giveaway at Book And Ink

Monday, September 7
Spotlight + Giveaway at Book Nerd
Spotlight+ Giveaway at Fuonlyknew

Wednesday, September 9
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at I’d Rather Be At The Beach

Sunday, September 20
Review + Giveaway at LibriAmoriMiei

Tuesday, September 22
Review + Giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

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 internationally:
5 participants will each win a copy of this book.
Print/digital format for US residents
Digital for all other residents

France Book Tours offers an incentive program to the book bloggers who take time to cross-post their positive reviews to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Itunes, Kobo, Goodreads/Shelfari/LibraryThing, etc.
See more details on this post.

NB: no incentive program winner for The Morgenstern Project – not enough reviewers participated.

From the book bloggers who reviewed

Random.org chose the winner:

Among the links received from these bloggers
in this order:

Veronica will receive a $15 gift card of her choice!

Remember: it just takes a few mn  to paste links of your cross-posted reviews on our new page. This is all it takes to enter to win $15 with France Book Tours!

Here is an excerpt of her review,
click on the link to read her full review

I enjoyed this book, it was a fun and enjoyable walk through the French vineyards!
It’s the first book I read of this series but can not wait  to read the others.

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Authors Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

are featured for the 7th time on France Book Tours!
After Treachery in Bordeaux,
Grand Cru Heist,
Nightmare in Burgundy,
Deadly Tasting,
Cognac Conspiracies,
Mayhem in Margaux
meet again the famous wine maker detective with this 7th volume!

Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

on  Tour

August 4-23

with

Flambé in Armagnac

(cozy mystery)

 Release date: August 6, 2015
at Le French Book

140  pages

ISBN: 978-1939474414

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

A small town holds fiercely onto its secrets.
In the heart of Gascony, a fire ravages the warehouse of one of Armagnac’s top estates, killing the master distiller. Wine expert Benjamin Cooker is called in to estimate the value of the losses. But Cooker and his assistant Virgile want to know more. How did the old alembic explode? Was it really an accident? Why is the estate owner Baron de Castayrac penniless? How legal are his dealings? The deeper the Winemaker Detective digs, the more suspicious characters he uncovers. There is more than one disgruntled inhabitant in this small town. As we witness the time-honored process of Armagnac distillation and the day-to-day activities of the hunt, the market place, and the struggle for power and duck confit, we get a glimpse of the traditions of southwestern France where this mystery of possible arson and murder lies below the surface. [provided by the publisher]

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

©David Nakache

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,
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.

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