Blowback, Peter May
Blowback, Peter May
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Blowback

Author: Peter May

Narrator: Peter Forbes

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 01/22/2019


Synopsis

"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.
Seven years ago, France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's culinary press to his remote restaurant in central France to make an announcement that he said would cause shockwaves in the culinary community.
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.

About Peter May

Peter May has been covering and writing about sports for more than three decades, for the last several years as a Boston-based correspondent for the New York Times. At the Boston Globe, he specialized in covering the Boston Celtics and the NBA, earning numerous writing awards. He also covered three Super Bowls, two World Series, the 2004 Olympics, and a number of international basketball tournaments. He is a senior lecturer in journalism at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. May is the author of four books: The Big Three: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish: The Best Frontcourt in the History of Basketball; The Last Banner: The Story of the 1985-86 Boston Celtics, the NBA's Greatest Team of All-Time; Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams and Family with Kim Mulkey; and Top of The World: The Inside Story of the Boston Celtics' 2007-08 Championship Season.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaline

This is the fifth cold-case of seven that Enzo has vowed to solve in France. This time, a famous chef with a Michelin 3-Star rating on his dining room, was murdered 7 years ago. Or was he? There is little evidence for a forensics expert to go on, but Enzo has a feeling that if he keeps talking to th......more

Goodreads review by Alan

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Goodreads review by Eric_W

We have dog detectives, cat detectives, recipe mysteries, vampire sleuths, etc. Most of these I ignore. At least a university professor who is a forensic science expert and works on cold cases makes sense. Enzo MacLeod, is investigating the cold case murder of Marc Fraysse, a three star restaurant ch......more