Amy Page, a middle-aged American widow and food columnist from Charleston, South Carolina, is in Paris to write a cookbook. Her lengthy stay in the City of Lights suddenly takes an unexpected turn when a cab driver is murdered in front of her building on the Ile St-Louis.
Jean-Michel Jolivet, Inspector for the French Surete and Director of the International Bureau of Security, insists that Amy is essential to solving his ever-widening investigation that now involves several murders and an international plot. While interrogating Amy, Jolivet becomes increasingly annoyed with her incessant...
Amy Page, a middle-aged American widow and food columnist from Charleston, South Carolina, is in Paris to write a cookbook. Her lengthy stay in the Ci...
A late-night phone call awakens Inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet and his irrepressible American friend, Amy Page: a man has been found brutally murdered at the foot of the Pont Louis-Philippe. Curiously, the body has been posed theatrically, perhaps to send a message.
Amy is surprised to discover that the victim is an acquaintance of hers and that she may have been the last person to see him. As she and Jean-Michel sift through codes, ciphers, and more violent murders, they uncover an international struggle for control of the new designer drug Bliss.
Were it not for her deepening...
A late-night phone call awakens Inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet and his irrepressible American friend, Amy Page: a man has been found brutally murdered ...
Amy Page is trying to get her life back on track, back to writing her cookbook, back to strolling around her beloved Ile Saint-Louis in the heart of Paris. Her lover, Inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet, is on leave, recovering from gunshot wounds sustained in the course of their last adventure. How can they now possibly help the police solve the murder of the young woman found in the Square Barye?
Clues abound, but are they red herrings? Is the victim an agent, an untrained operative, an art restorer, or something else? What do jewelry design, the color blue, a river goddess, a trumpet, wooden...
Amy Page is trying to get her life back on track, back to writing her cookbook, back to strolling around her beloved Ile Saint-Louis in the heart of P...
Gini Anding and Amy Page first met in a pastry shop on the main street of the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris. It was a chilly, rainy evening, and both were wearing the same navy blue raincoat and carrying identical black umbrellas. At the counter, they both ordered two slices of quiche Lorraine and four small palmiers. Simultaneously, they burst out laughing. While one is slightly shorter and plumper than the other, both are blondes and also Americans. "We could be taken for sisters " one of them exclaimed. From this chance encounter came a magical friendship and "The Amateur Gourmet." Sometimes in...
Gini Anding and Amy Page first met in a pastry shop on the main street of the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris. It was a chilly, rainy evening, and both were ...
The fourth installment of Gini Anding's Witness series featuring the irrepressible American widow Amy Page and French inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet, "Witness by the Church" finds Amy and Jean-Michel basking in his retirement from the Surete and settling nicely into their new commitment: living together on the vibrant Ile Saint-Louis. But things get a little less idyllic when Amy becomes the possible target of unknown assassins.
A bombing in the Metro station, the stabbing of an innocent friend, a suicide, and a bold murder in a church appear to all to be linked to attempts on Amy's...
The fourth installment of Gini Anding's Witness series featuring the irrepressible American widow Amy Page and French inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet...
The fourth installment of Gini Anding's Witness series featuring the irrepressible American widow Amy Page and French inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet, "Witness by the Church" finds Amy and Jean-Michel basking in his retirement from the Surete and settling nicely into their new commitment: living together on the vibrant Ile Saint-Louis. But things get a little less idyllic when Amy becomes the possible target of unknown assassins.
A bombing in the Metro station, the stabbing of an innocent friend, a suicide, and a bold murder in a church appear to all to be linked to attempts on Amy's...
The fourth installment of Gini Anding's Witness series featuring the irrepressible American widow Amy Page and French inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet...
More from the Amateur Gourmet is a continuation of The Amateur Gourmet, published in 2006. Like its predecessor, it strives to lessen the complexities of gourmet cooking for the everyday cook. It contains recipes that can be prepared just as easily in a small and limited cooking space as in a large state-of-the-art professional kitchen. A few are so effortless that one marvels at their actual simplicity. Again, as in the original, the section on Tips and Techniques provides shortcuts, making the complex dish eminently do-able. Each page offers the home cook an insight into the world of...
More from the Amateur Gourmet is a continuation of The Amateur Gourmet, published in 2006. Like its predecessor, it strives to lessen the complexities...
What happens to old spies in retirement? Do they simply fade away, never to be heard from again? How do former covert agents accustomed to working clandestinely on a need-to-know basis reorganize their lives? Zach, a weapons expert and trained assassin, wondered from time to time what he was doing as deputy sheriff on Chipley Island. And then the body of a man he had thought dead for many years rolled up on the beach-on his beach at Pirate's Cove-out of the blue.
Chipley Island is not just any island in Virginia. It is the brainchild of the body in the wetsuit. The man was...
What happens to old spies in retirement? Do they simply fade away, never to be heard from again? How do former covert agents accustomed to working ...
Zach asked Josie what she really thought of the present state of affairs. "I'm tempted to use that line from my favorite movie, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.'"
"Okay, Scarlet. But surely you are concerned over what's been going on. That famous memory of yours must be putting ... what do you call them? Oh, yes, patches. Aren't you putting two and two together and getting five? That's what you usually do."
It was Josie's turn to laugh. "Honestly, Zach, what I'm putting together reads like a script for a bad spy movie. We have nothing but red herrings, a mishmash of motley...
Zach asked Josie what she really thought of the present state of affairs. "I'm tempted to use that line from my favorite movie, 'Frankly, my dear, ...
