Long a renowned crime writer in France, Pierre Magnan has won numerous prizes and has a huge popular following in his native country. Now, with this mouth-watering series debut, Magnan introduces the celebrated Commissaire Laviolette to U.S. readers.
In Banon, a small, peaceful village in upper Provençe, the local community's principal source of income is the cultivation and sale of truffles. Tourists rarely venture into this remote region, but a small group of outsiders have chosen to set up home on the outskirts of the village.
When one of them is found dead in the freezer of a local hotel, and when more bodies are discovered in a family vault in the cemetery, it takes all of Commissaire Laviolette's considerable resources to unravel crimes whose origins can be traced to age-old secrets and superstitions.
Brimming with delectable food, eccentric suspects, and the passion of Provençe, Death in the Truffle Wood is an exceptional U.S. debut for the highly lauded Pierre Magnan.
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From the Back Cover:
British Acclaim for Pierre Magnan
"The master of Provençal Gothic."---Independent "The French have for many years been able to enjoy Pierre Magnan's extraordinary, eccentric crime novels set in Provence. [Death in the Truffle Wood] is one of the best. Magnan's vivid depiction of Provencal life is thoroughly enjoyable; but it's his perverse wit and imagination, and a sense of humanity, that make this book so special. Crime fiction for those with a soul."
---Sunday Independent
"Witty and melancholy. . . . If the plot . . . doesn't have your mouth watering, the loving descriptions of French food will."
---Daily Telegraph
"Entertaining and intriguing. A canny exercise in black humor and suspense."
---Time Out
"Genuinely breathtaking . . . More please."
---Evening Standard
About the Author:
Pierre Magnan is an acclaimed French crime writer who publishes his novels to rave reviews. He has won numerous awards for his writing in France, including the Prix du Quai des Orfèvres and Prix de la nouvelle du Rotary Club de Paris. Magnan won Sweden's Martin Beck Award for Best Crime Novel for Death in the Truffle Wood and France's Grand Prix RTL-Lire for his classic suspense novel The Murdered House, which Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur will publish in 2008. He lives in Provençe, France.
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- PublisherMinotaur Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0312366663
- ISBN 13 9780312366667
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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