"CATNIP FOR ARMCHAIR SLEUTHS" --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
"ONE OF THE BEST MYSTERY WRITERS ON THE MARKET TODAY" --The Mystery Gazette
Continuing his string of investigations into stubborn cold cases, ex-forensics superstar Enzo Macleod takes the case, diving into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.
Instead of an announcement, the reporters were shocked to find instead that the great chef had been murdered and they left without a clue about the message the chef intended to deliver or who might have killed him.
Winter has settled in around the mountaintop restaurant, causing complications, as Enzo learns more about the complex web of relationships that surrounded the celebrated (if also unpredictable) chef--a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic...
Macleod begins to see parallels with his own life and loves. In diving into this new case, he finds himself reopening old wounds of his own.
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"Wonderful Peter May, "Enzo story. No way to figure this one out as the plot was so circuitous and the ending the result of several last minute surprises made this one a joy to read. Will try some of his earlier Chinese setting books just to see how they are."
— Bill (4 out of 5 stars)
" Terrific must read. "
— Don, 11/25/2013" Vance does his usual great job on the audio "
— Joyce, 11/20/2013" Interesting novel about a cold case murder of a celebrated French chef "
— Mary, 5/28/2013" Enzo solves another one and he kept me in the dark for a while on "who dunit"! By the time I figured it out I then need to figure out why. Can't wait for cold case #6. "
— Phillis, 7/9/2012" It's been a long time since I stayed up late to finish a book! This one kept me going long after my normal bedtime. This may be the best Enzo yet. "
— MaryAnn, 5/13/2012" Enzo solves another one and he kept me in the dark for a while on "who dunit"! By the time I figured it out I then need to figure out why. Can't wait for cold case #6. "
— Phillis, 3/29/2011Peter May, born and raised in Scotland, was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 Entry Island won the Deanston’s Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award.
Peter Forbes is an audiobook narrator and actor. He studied English in the same year as Ian Rankin at Edinburgh University. His credits include Berkeley Square (BBC), Peter Kosminsky’s The Government Inspector (Channel 4 UK), the award-winning Black Watch, Never So Good, Afterlife, and Mamma Mia! (London West End). He was nominated in the 2011 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland for his performance in Liz Lochhead’s Educating Agnes.