I listened to The Food Programme on Radio 4 today while in the car and they had a feature on food and cookery in crime fiction. Having just got back from the Dordogne, I was interested to hear an author interviewed about his food-loving, French police detective featured in books set in the Perigord. It turns out this author has also written historical fiction about the caves in the region.
I always like reading books set in the areas I am visiting on holiday, so thought this might interest some lovers of this region, who might be stuck for something to read! I can't vouch for how good they are, but here is a link to the author's website anyway...
Well it's a good sign that there is more than one book - so they must be selling!
We read a rather odd series of books by Fred Vargas (a French woman writer!!) - again they are crime, but written in a very French way. They are an entertaining read whilst on holiday - but somehow they are all a bit strange. They aren't the sort of topics that would be written about by an English writer, put it that way.
Thanks for the heads up. They seem a well rated series on Amazon. Might give one a go. I'd be interested in the politics too, and the differences in the various police functions.
------------- Mike
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If like us, you visit the Lot next door to the Dordogne then I can recommend the Enzo files series by Peter May about a Scottish Italian forensic pathologist living in Cahors?!!