Burgundy: Twisted Roots
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
"Burgundy: Twisted Roots is an intriguing and multi-layered novel about love, wine and intrigue, steeped in a deep knowledge of the seductive French lifestyle, from wild boar hunts to wine harves feasts, with side servings of skullduggery and inheritance laws." —MARTIN WALKER, bestselling author of the Bruno, Chief of Police series
Max Maguire of the NYPD, daughter of a legendary NY cop and a French mother disowned by her aristocratic family when she married, met examining magistrate Olivier Chaumont over murder at the wedding of an old friend in the Champagne wine region. They remained on-again-off-again partners and lovers over more murder again, this time in Bordeaux. And now, six months later, Max is on her way to Burgundy where it's time to give up her promising career and commit—or split.
Murder occurs. There's a mystery girl, American. Fractured families. Motives aplenty. But the story's real fascination lies in two things French: the wine culture and French inheritance laws which are convoluted and guaranteed to spark family wars, even unto death. And the French justice system functions differently which frustrates Max, an action-oriented, straightforward investigator, and causes some friction with Olivier. Janet Hubbard wraps up her Vengeance in the Vineyard trilogy with a surprise and solutions that will please readers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hubbard's sprightly third Vengeance in the Vineyard mystery (after 2014's Bordeaux: The Bitter Finish) takes NYPD Det. Maxine "Max" Maguire; her recently retired police detective father, Hank; and her French mother, Juliette, to France, to visit Max's grandmother Isabelle, who lives in a stately home 10 miles from the ancient walled town of Beaune. Max's paramour, Olivier Chaumont, an antiterrorist magistrate based in Paris who grew up in the region, joins them. Max and Olivier are not the only ones getting in touch with their ancestral roots: 17-year-old American Lucy Kendrick, who has been working for a local vigneron, is also in Burgundy searching for the father she never knew. When Lucy goes missing and a local private detective falls to his death from his balcony, Max, Olivier, and Hank investigate. Steeped in wine lore, this entry has an authentic feel for the wines and people of Burgundy. Great meals and great wines accompany the mystery. Series fans will thoroughly enjoy its elegant, satisfying finish.)