Death in the truffle wood
By: Pierre Magnan ; translated from the French by Patricia Clancy
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780753175712; 9780753175729
Subjects: Alternative lifestyles; Truffle culture; Fiction
Work titles: Commissaire dans la truffiére
Description: In Banon, the local community's principal source of income is the cultivation and sale of truffles. Tourists rarely venture into this remote region, but a small group of outsiders have chosen to set up home on the outskirts of the village. When one of them is found dead in the freezer of a local hotel, and when more bodies are discovered in a family vault in the cemetery, it takes all of Commissaire Laviolette's resources to unravel crimes whose origins can be traced to age-old secrets and superstitions.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Harvill, 2005.