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Killer Critique

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Now a seasoned member of the Paris Police Judiciaire, the ever fashionable and whip smart Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier is finding murder to be more than just the spécialité du jour. . .

When the senior food critic for Le Figaro is found face-first in a plate of Ravioles d'horand, there seem to be as many suspects as there are restaurants in the City of Light. Yet Capucine feels she'll solve the case quicker than it takes to serve up an omelet aux fines herbes. Un problem, murders of food critics have become an epidemic. As the bodies pile up, un, deux, trois, so do the suspects, including a sexy starlet, an award-winning novelist, and a smorgasbord of aggravated chefs.

While Capucine struggles to zero in on the murderer's tastes, she is confronted with a false dilemma: file and forget the case, leaving restaurant critics across France vulnerable to a killer's episodic cravings, or use her husband, Alexandre, himself a famous food journalist, as irresistible bait.

Filled with delectable intrigue and ripe with quirky suspects, with a dash of Freudian idées de grandFR DE, Killer Critique is a feast worth killing for. . .

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 23, 2012
      In chapter one of Campion’s delectable third culinary mystery set in Paris (after 2011’s Crime Fraîche), a camcorder carried by Gautier du Fesnay, “senior food critic for Le Figaro,” records his arrival at Chez Béatrice, an elegant Left Bank restaurant he’s reviewing, and his subsequent demise after swallowing a bite of poisoned lobster ravioli. Later, someone plunges a basting needle into the ear of Jean Monteil, another restaurant critic, at Dans le Noir, where “ supposedly blind maître d’ leads you into a completely dark room, and you get to spill mediocre food all over your shirtfront.” Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier has a personal reason to find the killer fast, since her wine and food expert husband, Alexandre de Huguelet, could become the next victim. The action builds to an unexpected conclusion amid fireworks atop the Eiffel Tower. Campion, himself a food critic who lived for years in Paris, offers descriptions of haute cuisine sure to please the most discriminating palates. Agent: Sharon Bowers, Miller Bowers Griffin Literary Management.

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