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Gil Petty was once the world's number-one wine critic: a single good review from Petty meant overnight success; a single bad one spelled ruin. Then, during a tasting tour in the little known wine region of Gaillac, Petty went missing. His dead body was found strung upon a cross in the vineyards of southwest France, preserved in red wine and dressed in the ceremonial crimson robes of an ancient society dedicated to promoting Gaillac wine. Petty's
...3) Freeze frame
A long-ago promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod, a Scot who's been teaching in France for many years, to the study of a man murdered nearly twenty years ago. The study has been preserved, untouched, since the man's murder. The dead man left several clues there designed to reveal his killer's identity to his son, but ironically the son died soon after the father and never saw his father's message.
So begins the fourth of
...4) Blowback
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 later, his killing and the identity
...5) Dry Bones
What has happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher who trained some of France's best and brightest at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration as future Prime Ministers and Presidents vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. Talk about your cold case. The mystery inspires a bet, one that Enzo Macleod, a biologist teaching in Toulouse instead of pursuing a brilliant career in forensics back home in Scotland can ill afford to lose. The
...Gil Petty, the world's number one wine critic, went missing during a tasting tour of the little-known wine region of Gaillac. Three years ago, his body was discovered strung up on a cross in a vineyard in southwest France.
Dressed in the ceremonial crimson robes of the Brotherhood of the Order of the Divine Bottle (an ancient society dedicated to promoting Gaillac wine), the semi-decayed body had been preserved in red wine before being planted
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