When five bodies are discovered hanging by their feet in Banon, a small and peaceful village in Provence in which the local community's principal source of income comes from the cultivation and sale of truffles, it takes all of Commissaire Laviolette's resources to unravel crimes that were committed in a climate of superstition and secret animosity. 10,000 first printing.
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L'autore:
Pierre Magnan is an acclaimed French crime writer who publishes his novels to rave reviews. He has won numerous awards for his writing in France, including the Prix du Quai des Orfèvres and Prix de la nouvelle du Rotary Club de Paris. Magnan won Sweden's Martin Beck Award for Best Crime Novel for Death in the Truffle Wood and France's Grand Prix RTL-Lire for his classic suspense novel The Murdered House, which Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur will publish in 2008. He lives in Provençe, France.
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British Acclaim for Pierre Magnan
"The master of Provençal Gothic."---Independent "The French have for many years been able to enjoy Pierre Magnan's extraordinary, eccentric crime novels set in Provence. [Death in the Truffle Wood] is one of the best. Magnan's vivid depiction of Provencal life is thoroughly enjoyable; but it's his perverse wit and imagination, and a sense of humanity, that make this book so special. Crime fiction for those with a soul."
---Sunday Independent
"Witty and melancholy. . . . If the plot . . . doesn't have your mouth watering, the loving descriptions of French food will."
---Daily Telegraph
"Entertaining and intriguing. A canny exercise in black humor and suspense."
---Time Out
"Genuinely breathtaking . . . More please."
---Evening Standard
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- EditoreMinotaur Books
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0312366663
- ISBN 13 9780312366667
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine208
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