SPECIAL SPOTLIGHT TOUR!

Authors Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

Do you know a better combo than French wine and mystery?
Perfect for a cozy end of the year!
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you will receive an easy file to copy and paste on your book blog,
and you will be entered in a contest to win a $20 gift card of your choice!

Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

on  Tour

November 23-December 23

with

The Winemaker Detective:
An Omnibus

(mystery)

 Release date: December 5, 2015
at Le French Book

309  pages

ISBN: 9781939474568

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

The ideal gift for mystery and wine lovers — An immersion in French countryside, gourmet attitude, and light-hearted mystery.

Two amateur sleuths gumshoe around French wine country, where money, deceit, jealousy, inheritance and greed are all the ingredients needed for crime. Master winemaker Benjamin Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien solve mysteries in vineyards with a dose of Epicurean enjoyment of fine food and beverage. Each story is a homage to wine and winemakers, as well as a mystery.

In Treachery in Bordeaux, barrels at the prestigious grand cru Moniales Haut-Brion wine estate in Bordeaux have been contaminated. Is it negligence or sabotage?

In Grand Cru Heist, Benjamin Cooker’s world gets turned upside down one night in Paris. He retreats to the region around Tours to recover. He and his assistant Virgile turn PI to solve two murders and a very particular heist.

In Nightmare in Burgundy, a dream wine tasting trip to Burgundy turns into a troubling nightmare when Cooker and his assistant stumble upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era.

This made-for-TV series is “difficult to forget and oddly addictive” (ForeWord Reviews).

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.

 ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

 

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, November 23
Spotlight and giveaway at The Discerning Reader

Tuesday, November 24
Spotlight and giveaway at It’s a Mad Mad World

Wednesday, November 25
Spotlight and giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Friday, November 27
Spotlight and giveaway at Queen of All She Reads

Sunday, November 29
Spotlight at Svetlana’s Reads and Views

Monday, November 30
Spotlight and giveaway at The Book’s the Thing

Saturday, December 5
Spotlight and giveaway at I’d Rather Be At The Beach

Thursday, December 10
Spotlight and giveaway at Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile

Wednesday, December 16
Spotlight and giveaway at Fuonlyknew

Tuesday, December 22
Spotlight and giveaway at LibriAmoriMiei

Wednesday, December 23
Spotlight and giveaway at Words And Peace

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Today is the official release day of
Nightmare in Burgundy

Read more about it here

Please come back to visit the book bloggers starting April 7,
there will be giveaways for a chance to win this great book!

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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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]

Genre: whodunit/cozy mystery

BISAC cat.: Mystery/Detective

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

Available  as a Kindle book in March
Paper: pre-order from your local bookstore

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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

©David Nakache

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

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