Book Review: Nightmare in Burgundy

Book: Nightmare in Burgundy (Winemaker Detective Mysteries book #3) by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noel Balen with translations by Sally Pane

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

The Winemaker Detective leaves his native Bordeaux to go to Burgundy for a dream wine tasting trip to France's other key wine-making region. Between Beaune, Dijon and Nuits-Saint-Georges, it urns into a troubling nightmare when he stumbles upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era. What do they mean? What dark secrets from the deep past are haunting the Clos de Vougeot? Does blood need to be shed to sharpen people's memory?


Rating: 3 1/2 stars

Review:

This series is really starting to grow on me especially since many of the problems I found with the first two books were not in this one. Although Nightmare in Burgundy still provides many wonderful details about the food and more to the reader but they're not so many that it drags down the story. As well as Benjamin Cooker didn't go on as many historical tangents as he has in the other two books.

In this third book, wine expert Benjamin Cooker was in Burgundy, France for a wine tasting event when strange things started happening throughout town. Graffiti has started popping up on various buildings and walls with many believing that teenagers were to blame. Benjamin didn't think so because it wasn't regular graffiti but passages written in Latin.

But after two tragic deaths which were perceived as a result from the graffiti Benjamin was even more interested in finding out what was behind all of this. He called in his assistant Virgile Lanssien to not only help him with the wine tastings but also with the mystery. Virgile also got a little more attention in this story.

I can see why many compare this series to Murder She Wrote with Jessica Fletcher not going out of her way to find a mystery, they just find her. And it's the same with Benjamin Cooker, they have a way of mysteries finding them.