Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Bruno, Chief of Police series #2.
Benoit (Bruno) Courrèges—devoted friend, cuisinier extraordinaire, and the town’s only municipal policeman—rushes to the scene when a research station for genetically modified crops is burned down outside Saint-Denis. Bruno immediately suspects a group of fervent environmentalists who live nearby, but the fire is only the first in a string of mysteries centering on the region’s fertile soil.
Then a bevy of winemakers descends on Saint-Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment among the villagers. Romances blossom. Hearts are broken. Some of the sensual pleasures of the town—a dinner of a truffle omelet and grilled bécasses, a community grape-crushing—provides an opportunity for both warm friendship and bitter hostilities to form. The town’s rivals—Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine; Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Québécoise; and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune—act increasingly erratically. Events grow ever darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far from those of the past.
Read Alikes for The Dark Vineyard: The Black Diamond by Martin Walker; The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah; The Critic by Peter May; The Maid of Monoco by Donna Leon
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Bruno, Chief of Police series #2.
Benoit (Bruno) Courrèges—devoted friend, cuisinier extraordinaire, and the town’s only municipal policeman—rushes to the scene when a research station for genetically modified crops is burned down outside Saint-Denis. Bruno immediately suspects a group of fervent environmentalists who live nearby, but the fire is only the first in a string of mysteries centering on the region’s fertile soil.
Then a bevy of winemakers descends on Saint-Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment among the villagers. Romances blossom. Hearts are broken. Some of the sensual pleasures of the town—a dinner of a truffle omelet and grilled bécasses, a community grape-crushing—provides an opportunity for both warm friendship and bitter hostilities to form. The town’s rivals—Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine; Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Québécoise; and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune—act increasingly erratically. Events grow ever darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far from those of the past.
Read Alikes for The Dark Vineyard: The Black Diamond by Martin Walker; The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah; The Critic by Peter May; The Maid of Monoco by Donna Leon
ISBN 978-0-307-45471-3
Martin Walker
2009
