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Title: Tainted Tokay (Buveurs en Serie)

Author: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noel Balen, Sally Pane - translator

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

"A terrific series." - New York Times best-seller William Martin.

The gold standard in mysteries that dovetail travel, cuisine, and wine. In between enjoying sumptuous food and wine, the "Winemaker Detective" grapples with deceit and deception in Old World Europe.

France's top wine expert Benjamin Cooker sets off to enjoy the delights of Vienna, a romantic ride down the Danube, a gourmand's visit to Budapest, and a luxury train through the enchanting Hungarian countryside. All too soon, stolen wallets, disappearing passports, guides who are a bit too obliging, and murder mar the trip.

Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Cooker's handsome assistant Virgile faces an annoying rival and a mildew crisis in the vineyards just as Cooker's lab technician is the victim of a mugging.

If you love cozy culinary mysteries, amateur detective stories, international mysteries with French flair, or anything wine-related, this made-for-TV series offers armchair travel at its best with gentle mysteries.

Critic Reviews:

Light and enjoyable If you feel like taking an armchair tour of France, this series hits just the right spot. (Star Tribune)

Members Reviews:

Food, wine and travel guide incorporated in an enjoyable mystery in European wine country

Le French Book has favored the English language readers with yet another mystery translated from the French by Sally Pane. Authors Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noel Balen are Frenchmen who are passionate about dining, wine and a good mystery. They developed the concept for a mystery series featuring a thoughtful wine connoisseur who can always ferret out the resolution of the myriad mysteries that come up in the grape-growing countries of Europe.

Tainted Tokay incorporates two mysteries (three if one counts the crisis in the vineyards of Chateau Blanchard,) which demand resolution in two locations at the same time. Benjamin Cooker has made his reputation as a wine consultant and as author of a best selling guide book on wine. He is invited by his publisher to cruise the Danube, highlighted by a visit to the Tokaji wine making region. But just as he and his wife are prepping to leave, his lab director in Bordeaux is victimized by an unknown mugger and will be out of commission at a particularly busy time in the lab.

But, not to worry, he is told by his right hand man Virgile Lanssien, who assures Benjamin that he can take care of the lab and watch over Alexandrine de La Palussiere as she recuperates.

The plot gets complicated on both fronts quickly and Benjamin is dealing with murder and deceit on the cruise while Virgile is dealing with the mysterious Alexandrine...is the mugger really unknown to her, or is she protecting someone? In this book we learn much more about Alexandrine's past.

Virgile does some detective work, though he does keep Benjamin in the loop, perhaps because he is the boss, but also because his insights, though offered long distance, may help Virgile move forward on the home front.