Back cover: When a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis, competing for it's land and spurring resentment among the villagers, the idyllic town-where Benoit "Bruno" Courreges is the town's only policeman--findsitself the center of an intense drama, with suspicious fires at the agricultural research station that is working on genetically modified crops.

Two young men - Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune--become rivals for the affection of Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Quebecoise student of wine. Events grow even darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far from those of the past.

Read this one awhile back and enjoyed it. Reserved for an upcoming bookbox

sent off in my Armchair Travels to France Bookbox.
Happy Travels

I'm claiming this softcover from LaveggioCoffee's Armchair Travels to France Bookbox. It's from the series featuring small-town chief of police Bruno, set in the Périgord region of France.

Later: Interesting mix of wine-making, ecological crime, and the tension between tradition and new industry - though I admit my favorite bits had to do with the mouth-watering descriptions of the dishes that the inspector makes and enjoys {wry grin}. (There was an amusing bit about one wine-maker who was remarkably casual about what he tossed into the wine vats - grapes are grapes, he thinks, while adding the occasional blackcurrant...)

Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.

I left this book in this new-to-me Little Free Library; hope someone enjoys it!

[See other recent releases in MA here.]

*** Released for the 2021 April Showers/May Flowers challenge. ***

*** Released for the 2021 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***