Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle
Chef Maurice Mysteries (Book #1)
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3.9 • 26 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed.”
Take one sleepy Cotswold village, mix in one Poirot-esque murder mystery, add a larger-than-life French chef with an appetite for solving crime, and season with clues and red herrings galore . . .
It’s autumn in the Cotswolds, and Chef Maurice is facing a problem of mushrooming proportion.
Not only has his wild herb and mushroom supplier, Ollie Meadows, missed his weekly delivery—he’s missing vital signs too, when he turns up dead in the woods near Beakley village.
Soon, Chef Maurice is up to his nose in some seriously rotten business—complete with threatening notes, a pignapping, and an extremely well-catered stake-out.
Can he solve Ollie’s murder before his home-made investigation brings the killer out for second helpings?
Customer Reviews
Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffles, by J. A. Lang
Although passionate of literature, mysteries is the genre I enjoyed the most since forever. I especially love mysteries marrying humour and smart characterizations, which was exactly promised by ”Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle". So I was expecting several hours of pleasure. Instead, those 392 pages left me with a sour taste in my literary mouth, as chef Maurice Manchot sounded both clichéd and unrealistic to this French native speaker.
Indeed not only are chef Maurice's obesity and personality having little to do with contemporary Masterchef's, including French ones, but he sounds mostly like a linguistically challenged Hercule Poirot. Highly disappointing!
But fear not, dear fellow mysteries reader! If you have little or no direct experience in French culture and language, you'll be in the position to enjoy "Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle" the most: rich from characters' idiosyncrasies as well as J. A. Lang's light and humorous style, that novel has every chance of entertaining you for hours.
M. Simard, PH. D,
Linguist
Quebec, Canada
Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle
I absolutely loved this book and have downloaded both of J.A.Lang's other two books in the series. Well if you didn't like this book it is your own fault, if you read every page like I do it states right in the first few pages that it has English Grammar and English expressions. The humour and surprise of who the murderer was turned out as a very enjoyable read. I keep checking to see if there are anymore future books of Chef Maurice, loved this character and the fact he saved a little piggy's life. Keep up the good work. T.T.F.N.