| Death in the Truffle Wood: A Mystery in Provence Contributor(s): Magnan, Pierre (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312367198 ISBN-13: 9780312367190 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 Annotation: Banon is a small village in Provence, where the local community's principal source of income comes from the cultivation and sale of truffles. Outsiders rarely venture to this remote region, but a small group of society's dropouts have chosen to set up home on the outskirts of the village. Then one of them is found dead in the freezer of a local hotel. When a further five bodies are discovered hanging by their feet and drained of blood in the family vault of the cemetery, it takes all Commissaire Laviolette's considerable resources to unravel the crimes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Commissaire LaViolette Mystery |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.36" W x 8.26" (0.44 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 mouthwatering series debut, Magnan introduces the celebrated Commissaire Laviolette to U.S. readers. In a small, peaceful village in Provence, the principal source of income is the cultivation and sale of truf?es. When Commissaire Laviolette arrives to investigate why several of the town's citizens are missing, it isn't long before their bodies turn up. It takes all of the detective's ingenuity to unravel crimes whose origins are as old as the truf?e woods. |
Contributor Bio(s): Magnan, Pierre: - Pierre Magnan is an award-winning French crime writer. Death in the Truffle Wood was his first Commissaire Laviolette mystery to be published in the United States. He is also the author of The Messengers of Death and The Murdered House, published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur. |