The Grave Gourmet (Capucine Culinary Mysteries) - Softcover

Campion, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0758246706 ISBN 13: 9780758246707

Publisher: Kensington, 2011

Synopsis

From the Champs-Élysées to the twinkling banks of la Seine, chic Parisian policewoman Capucine LeTellier plunges into a uniquely Parisian affair of gastronomic delights and bureaucratic intrigue to close a case that could make her career--or kill it. . .

After dining on such delicacies as oyster sorbet and avocado soufflé, Jean-Louis Delage, président of automotive giant Renault, has been found dead in the freezer of Le Diapason, a three-star restaurant owned by Chef Jean-Basille Labrousse, a renowned restaurateur extraordinaire.

Capucine is uniquely suited to the case, as her husband Alexandre is a food critic well-connected to the culinary world. In between sharing sumptuous meals and fine wine with Alexandre at Paris' finest eateries, Capucine struggles to win the respect of her new squad of detectives and crack both the case and the guarded secrets of the restaurant staff.

Praise for Alexander Campion's The Grave Gourmet

"Full of amusing characters. . . Readers will want a second helping." --Publishers Weekly

"A delicious mystery. . . a fun book with a very different flavor." --Carolyn Haines, author of the Bones Mysteries

"An astonishing debut that raises the bar on today's detective novel." --Aram Saroyan, author of Door to the River

"Saucy, spicy, tasty. . .ooh-la-la!" --Kate Collins

About this title

About the Author

Alexander Campion started out as a true New Yorker, graduating from Columbia and migrating downtown to Wall Street. Early on, someone, a little apologetically, proposed he spend six months maximum in Paris helping out with a new venture his firm had just acquired. He stayed thirty five years, eventually becoming a restaurant critic and progressing inevitably to gastronomic thrillers.

From Publishers Weekly

Campion's debut introduces a beguiling heroine, 28-year-old Lt. Capucine Le Tellier of the Paris judicial police. Bored with her deskbound job pursuing white-collar crime, Capucine jumps at the chance to get involved in a possible murder investigation. The body of Jean-Louis Delage, the président-directeur général of the automaker Renault, has turned up in the refrigerator of Diapason, a three-star restaurant, where Delage dined earlier that evening with his lawyer. Diapason's owner, eminent chef Jean-Basile Labrousse, is well known to Capucine's restaurant critic husband, Alexandre. What at first appears to be a case of food poisoning is soon ruled a homicide. Capucine's family connections help open political doors and provide useful contacts as she uncovers a plot involving foreign nationals and industrial espionage. Full of amusing characters, this diverting gastronomic mystery builds to a most satisfactory conclusion. Readers will want a second helping. (July)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0758246706
• ISBN 13: 9780758246707
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320