Killer Critique
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
Between haute couture and haute cuisine, Parisian Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier finds murder to be more than the spécialité du jour. . .
When the senior food critic for Le Figaro is found face-first in a plate of Ravioles d'homard, there seem to be as many suspects as there are restaurants in the City of Light. Yet Capucine feels she'll solve the case quicker than it takes to find a 3-star rating in the Michelin Guide. Un problem, murders of food critics have become an epidemic. And there are just as many suspects, including a sexy starlet, an award-winning novelist, and a smorgasbord of aggravated chefs. While Capucine struggles to zero in on the murderer's tastes, she is confronted with a false dilemma: file and forget the case, leaving restaurant critics across France vulnerable to a killer's episodic cravings, or use her husband, Alexandre, himself a famous food journalist, as irresistible bait.
Praise for Alexander Campion's Capucine Culinary Mysteries
"Will appeal to a diversity of readers. Devotees of G.M. Maillet and Charles Todd will especially enjoy this different and delicious series." --Booklist on Killer Critique
"[A] countryside romp." --Kirkus Reviews on Crime Fraîche
"An astonishing debut that raises the bar on today's detective novel." --Aram Saroyan on The Grave Gourmet
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In chapter one of Campion's delectable third culinary mystery set in Paris (after 2011's Crime Fra che), a camcorder carried by Gautier du Fesnay, "senior food critic for Le Figaro," records his arrival at Chez B atrice, an elegant Left Bank restaurant he's reviewing, and his subsequent demise after swallowing a bite of poisoned lobster ravioli. Later, someone plunges a basting needle into the ear of Jean Monteil, another restaurant critic, at Dans le Noir, where " supposedly blind ma tre d' leads you into a completely dark room, and you get to spill mediocre food all over your shirtfront." Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier has a personal reason to find the killer fast, since her wine and food expert husband, Alexandre de Huguelet, could become the next victim. The action builds to an unexpected conclusion amid fireworks atop the Eiffel Tower. Campion, himself a food critic who lived for years in Paris, offers descriptions of haute cuisine sure to please the most discriminating palates.
