Blowback (Enzo Files) - Softcover

May, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590588436 ISBN 13: 9781590588437

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr, 2011

Synopsis

When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars. Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made. Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma.

Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine. As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop. But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef - a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic--also leads to strange parallels with his own life. And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.

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He is a terrific writer doing something different. (Mark Billingham)

From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer. (Sophie Hannah)

Wonderfully compelling. (Kate Mosse)

Peter May is an author I'd follow to the ends of the earth. (New York Times)

Dark, exciting and atmospheric. (Scotland on Sunday)

Book Description

The fifth Enzo File: set in the volatile and - now, it appears - murderous world of haute cuisine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1590588436
• ISBN 13: 9781590588437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277