"They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed."
Take one sleepy Cotswold village, mix in one Poirot-esque murder mystery, add a larger-than-life French chef with an appetite for solving crime, and season with clues and red herrings galore . . .
It's autumn in the Cotswolds, and Chef Maurice is facing a problem of mushrooming proportion. Not only has his wild herb and mushroom supplier, Ollie Meadows, missed his weekly delivery-he's missing vital signs...
BOOK #1 IN SERIES
"They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed."
In the rarefied world of wine collecting, murder isn't exactly a barrel of laughs...
An invitation to dinner at the home of renowned wine collector Sir William Burton-Trent soon finds Chef Maurice in the middle of an all-too-real murder mystery party, when Sir William is found dead in his own wine cellar.
The guests are acting all innocent, but which one is only playing the part? The pushy Californian film director? The seductive French winemaker? Or could it be, against all narrative decency, the butler who did it?
With the...
BOOK #2 IN SERIES
In the rarefied world of wine collecting, murder isn't exactly a barrel of laughs...