Death in the Truffle Wood, Paperback/Pierre Magnan

Long a renowned crime writer in France, Pierre Magnan has won numerous prizes and has a huge popular following in his native country. Now, with this mouthwatering series debut, Magnan introduces the celebrated Commissaire Laviolette to U.S. readers. In a small, peaceful village in Provence, the principal source of income is the cultivation and sale of truf?es. When Commissaire Laviolette arrives to investigate why several of the town's citizens are missing, it isn't long before their bodies turn up. It takes all of the detective's ingenuity to unravel crimes whose origins are as old as the truf?e woods. About author(s): Pierre Magnan is an award-winning French crime writer. Death in the Truffle Wood is his first Commissaire Laviolette mystery to be published in the United States; the second, The Messengers of Death , is forthcoming from Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur.