Book Review: Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noël Balen’s Cognac Conspiracies
A French vineyard faces a hostile takeover by foreigners, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker audits the books only to be faced with an unexpected drowning.
A French vineyard faces a hostile takeover by foreigners, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker audits the books only to be faced with an unexpected drowning.
A quirky collection of nine short stories of mystery — six with Faith Fairchild and three not, some confusing, others intriguing.
I’m very conflicted on how to rate this. Part of me wants to give it a “2” as I simply do not view this as a mystery. It’s more like a story about wine and the tasting of and a visit into the history of collaborationist France during World War II. It doesn’t feel like a legitimate mystery story. And yet, I do enjoy the comparisons.
I love reading about Benjamin tasting the wines. It makes me want to visit France
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One part travel, one part history, and five parts adventure, Kitty Hawk is an intrepid teenage pilot with her own De Havilland Beaver seaplane and a nose for mystery and intrigue.
Explore the first book in Mayra Calvani’s Violinist Detective series, The Luthier’s Apprentice, a paranormal fantasy for young adults.
A veteran con man who defrauded countless Fort Connor residents shows up in and everyone—including the House of Lambspun knitters—is up in arms, especially Barbara. Released for good behavior, he’s back to ruin more lives until he’s found dead in his car.
Mr. and Mrs. North have invited their closest friends—an ex-aviator, a mysterious doctor, and New York Police Department’s own Lt. William Weigand—to join them on this glittering retreat, but the joviality ends when Weigand finds Helen Wilson lying across the path, a knife buried in her neck. A member of the group surely killed her, and unless the Norths act quickly, the murderer will strike again.
THE NORTHS MEET MURDER in the top-floor studio of the old house in which they live. Long left vacant, Mrs. North decides it is just the place for a party and takes her husband up to check it out when they find a murdered man in the bathtub! With no clue, Detective Weigand begins spinning his web and gathering into it the most amazing conglomeration of information. With the aid of Mrs. North’s “hunches” Weigand carries through to a brilliant, entertaining and fascinating conclusion.