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February 8, 2018
Social Vignerons on Wine & Food Mysteries
The award-winning SocialVignerons.com blog by the former winemaker Julien Miquel, who is, in his words, "obsessed with sharing: wine, food, travel & family," shared a post on wine and food mysteries, all about the Gourmet Crimes series and the Winemaker Detective series.
Many thanks to him. Do go check out the blog. It's well worth it.
Combining Fact and Fiction
Vanessa Barrot and Noël Balen, authors of the Gourmet Crime series, shared some dos and don'ts for combining fact and fiction on Janet Rudolph's Mystery Fanfare blog.
Minced, Marinated, and Murdered, the first book in the series, is set in Lyon, France’s traditional capital of gourmet food. The novel delves deep into the juicy real details of France’s culinary history, mixing local reality and historical fact with fiction and mystery. Filled with real restaurants and people, but also an enti...
February 6, 2018
Bonjour Paris! Interview
I just did an exclusive interview with Janet Hulstrand for Bonjour Paris about Le French Book and mysteries and thrillers. Check it out and you'll find the answers to her great questions and learn:
What I love most about living in France. What inspired me to start Le French Book. What I consider to be the main differences between mysteries, cozy mysteries, and thrillers. Some comments on the challenges of translation and what values drive our publishing house.
February 4, 2018
Quenching your thirst and satisfying your palate in Lyon
I recently found a really fun blog for wine lovers: Social Vignerons. Its goal is "to showcase all the talent found in the many facets of the world of wine: its people, its places, the amazing knowledge that relates to it, the enjoyable moments with friends matching with food or traveling, the processes and products, accessories, and everything else around it…"
Not only do they have tons of great content, they also just ran a guest post by Noël Balen and Vanessa Barrot, about wines to enjoy in...
January 30, 2018
New culinary mystery series — Q&A with the authors
French writers Noël Balen and Vanessa Barrot
The Frenchman Noël Balen, author of the made-for-TV Winemaker Detective series, wanted to expand from the wine cellar to the kitchen. To do so, he teamed up with Vanessa Barrot, a lawyer, writer, and inveterate food lover. Together, they cooked up the new culinary mystery series Gourmet Crimes, starting with Minced, Marinated, and Murdered, which will be available in English on February 20. Below we asked them a few questions.
Order before Feb. 20...January 23, 2018
Grab launch bonuses
Pre-orders are now open for Minced, Marinated, and Murdered, a deliciously authentic culinary mystery novel is the first of a new series set in France offering a well-balanced blend of gastronomy and suspense with mouth-watering excursions into the regions of France.
Author Noël Balen, who also pens the made-for-TV Winemaker Detective Series, has teamed up with Vanessa Barrot and created a new female sleuth for this series, which combines local reality and fiction, historical fact and culinar...
December 13, 2017
"Perfectly simmered"
We are just putting the final touches on the first in a new culinary mystery series with mouth-watering excursions into the regions of France: Gourmet Crimes. Minced, Marinated, and Murdered is a deliciously authentic mystery novel offering a well-balanced blend of gastronomy and suspense. Author Noël Balen, who also pens the made-for-TV Winemaker Detective Series, has teamed up with Vanessa Barrot and created a new female sleuth for this series, which combines local reality and fiction, hist...
September 12, 2017
Requiem in Yquem out today
A New Winemaker Detective Mystery
The intricate taste of greed and remorse
In the mist-covered hills of Sauternes, where the wine is luscious and the landscape beguiling, the brutal murder of an elderly couple intrigues the wine expert Benjamin Cooker and awakens memories for his dashing assistant Virgile Lanssien. Drawn into the investigation, the two journey through the storied Sauternes countryside, where the Château d’Yquem has reigned for centuries. Will the murder go unexplained and th...
August 31, 2017
Each book is an adventure...
Jean-Pierre Alaux
As we prepare for the upcoming release of the new Winemaker Detective mystery, Requiem in Yquem, we talked to the authors Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen.
In France, there are twenty-six books in the series so far (12 published to date in the U.S.), as the series grows and evolves, do you find it easier or more difficult to fall into the story and discover new and exciting plots?
Noël Balen
Each book is an adventure in and of itself. It is hard to describe the process in t...
August 30, 2017
Pre-orders the new Winemaker Detective mystery with bonuses!
The new Winemaker Detective mystery will whisk you away to Sauternes.
In another satisfying wine novel with a French flair, authors Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen give readers a perfectly intoxicating combination of French wine, gourmet meals, and mystery in the gloriously described Sauternes wine region with all the scenery, scents, and sounds of France.
Requiem in Yquem comes out on September 12.
We’ve put together some amazing things you get if you pre-order the book before September 1...
