Winemaker detective
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Winemaker detective volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Immerse yourself in French countryside and gourmet attitude with two amateur sleuths gumshoeing around Bordeaux wine country. In modern-day Bordeaux, there are few wine estates still within the city limits. The prestigious grand cru Moniales Haut-Brion is one of them. When some barrels turn, world-renowned winemaker turned gentleman detective Benjamin Cooker starts asking questions. Is it negligence or sabotage? Who would want to target this esteemed...
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Winemaker detective volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
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149 pages ; 21 cm.
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In this gourmet journey in France, renowned wine critic Benjamin Cooker's world gets turned upside down one night in Paris. He retreats to the region around Tours to recover. Then, from the Loire Valley to Bordeaux, in between a glass of Vouvray and a bottle of Saint-Émilion, the Winemaker Detective and his assistant Virgile turn PI to solve two murders and a very peculiar heist. Who stole those bottles of grand cru classé?
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Winemaker detective volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 22 cm.
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After Treachery in Bordeaux, and Grand Cru Heist, Benjamin Cooker, our Winemaker Detective leaves his native Bordeaux to go to Burgundy for a dream wine tasting trip to France's other key wine-making region. Between Beaune, Dijon and Nuits-Saint-Georges, it turns into a troubling nightmare when he stumbles upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era. What do they mean? What dark secrets from the deep past are haunting the Clos de Vougeot?...
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Winemaker detective volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 21 cm.
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A serial killer in Bordeaux leaves a wine-related tableaux as a calling card. The local police call in the winemaking detective, Benjamin Cooker, hoping he can help catch the killer.
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Winemaker detective volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm.
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The heirs to one of the oldest Cognac estates in France face a hostile takeover by foreign investors. Renowned wine expert Benjamin Cooker is called in to audit the books. In what he thought was a sleepy provincial town, he is stonewalled, crosses paths with his first love, and stands up to high-level state officials keen on controlling the buyout. Meanwhile, irresistible Virgile mingles with the local population until a drowning changes the stakes....
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Winemaker detective volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
164 pages.
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"It's summer in Bordeaux. There's a heat wave, the vineyards are suffering, vintners are on edge, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker's daughter is visiting. A tragic car accident draws the Winemakeer Detective and his assistant Virgile into a case where the stakes are very personal, and they uncover some dirty secrets hiding behind some of Bordeaux's finest grand cru classé wines from Margaux"--Page 4 of cover.
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Winemaker detective volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
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147 pages ; 20 cm.
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"In the heart of Gascony, a fire ravages the warehouse of one of Armagnac's top estates, killing the master distiller. Wine expert Benjamin Cooker is called in to estimate the value of the losses. But Cooker and his assistant Virgile want to know more. Did the old alembic explode? Was it really an accident? Why is the estate owner Baron de Castayrac penniless? How legal are his dealings?,"--Amazon.com.
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Winemaker detective volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Wine expert Benjamin Cooker travels to the French capital, where his is called to help care for some vineyards in Montmartre, a neighborhood full of memories for him. He stops in on an old friend. Arthur Solacroup left the Foreign Legion to open a wine shop good enough to be in the Cooker Guide. But an attempted murder brings the past back into the present. But which past? The winemaker detective and his assistant Virgile want to know more, and their...
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Winemaker detective volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
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163 pages ; 21 cm.
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"A business magnate calls on wine expert Benjamin Cooker to kickstart his new wine business in Beaujolais, sparking bitter rivalries. Can the Winemaker Detective and his assistant keep calculating real estate agents, taciturn winegrowers, dubious wine merchants and suspicious deaths from delaying delivery of the world-famous Beaujolais Nouveau?"--
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Winemaker detective volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
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167 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Winter is in the air in Alsace and local customs are sowing trouble, piquing the curiosity of the famous winemaker from Bordeaux, Benjamin Cooker. While the wine expert and his assistant Virgile settle into their hotel in the old city of Colmar, distinguished vineyards are attacked. Is it revenge? The plot thickens when estates with no apparent connection to one another suffer the same sabotage just days prior to the late harvest. All of Alsace is...
11) Tainted Tokay
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Winemaker detective volume 11
Pub. Date
[2016]
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181 pages ; 21 cm.
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Winemaker detective volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 21 cm.
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"The Winemaker Detective heads to Burgundy for the grape harvest when a hail storm strikes, and a body turns up." -- Goodreads.com
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