The authors of Treachery in Bordeaux are Epicures. Jean-Pierre Alaux is a magazine, radio and television journalist when he is not writing novels in southwestern France. He is a genuine wine and food lover and recently won the Antonin Carême prize for his cookbook La Truffe sur le Soufflé, which he wrote with the chef Alexis Pélissou. He is the grandson of a winemaker and exhibits a real passion for wine and winemaking. For him, there is no greater common denominator than wine. He gets a sparkle in his eye when he talks about the Winemaker Detective series, which he coauthors with Noël Balen. Noël lives in Paris, where he shares his time between writing, making records, and lecturing on music. He plays bass, is a music critic and has authored a number of books about musicians in addition to his novel and short-story writing.

Jean-Pierre Alaux recently won the Prix Antonin Carême for a recent cookbook, and the Académie d’Occitanie’s Prix des Lettres for another detective series he writes.

Find out more about the authors and the series in our blog post The crime fiction lovers’ guide to wine tasting. In this post on Mystery Fanfare, the authors talk about how they write this series together. Here are some blogs by or about them:

• Meet the authors: Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noël Balen

Check out Jean-Pierre’s French website.

• The 19^th book in the Winemaker Detective series just came out in France: On achève bien les tonneaux. 
• The 20^th book—Médoc sur ordonnance—is scheduled for a fall 2012 release in France.

Treachery in Bordeaux

Original title in French: Mission à Haut Brion (Fayard, 2004)

Available as ebook.

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Check out this press release: Wine plus crime: Le French Book signs on gentleman detective novel