Commissaire LaViolette Mystery Death in the Truffle Wood, Book 1, (Paperback)

from lucybrown

Death in the Truffle Wood is a great little mystery, more old school than not. The premise is that deep in the heart of truffle hunters' Provence hippies last known to be at at a nearby commune keep disappearing. The unassuming Commissarie Laviolette is sent to lay low and see what he can see. La...

from akfarrar

Crime Fiction tends to rely on the glutton rather than the epicure - the criminals always seem to want insatiably - wealth, power, wo/men; the detectives want more and more, almost with a ferociousness, the next clue; and the readers stuff themselves to bursting with the newest publication. Tablo...

from lucybrown

Death in the Truffle Wood is a great little mystery, more old school than not. The premise is that deep in the heart of truffle hunters' Provence hippies last known to be at at a nearby commune keep disappearing. The unassuming Commissarie Laviolette is sent to lay low and see what he can see. La...

from birdsofparadise

A fun, light read shot through with an eccentric vein of dark humour. Magnan has a real talent for creating atmosphere - the descriptions of a moonlit woodland by night at the beginning of the book couldn't be more spookily evocative. Perfect reading for Autumn!

from lucybrown

Death in the Truffle Wood is a great little mystery, more old school than not. The premise is that deep in the heart of truffle hunters' Provence hippies last known to be at at a nearby commune keep disappearing. The unassuming Commissarie Laviolette is sent to lay low and see what he can see. La...