Death Walks the Riviera - Couverture souple

Lewis-Beck, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 098284770X ISBN 13 : 9780982847701

Editeur : Catstep Press, 2022

Synopsis

“Perched high above the Mediterranean on the Provençal coast, the Calendal Foundation provides a haven of entitlement for academics far from the tedium of home and office. This year’s fellows, however, take constructive criticism a step too far, and the resulting deaths introduce a touch of reality that even the most self-absorbed scholars can’t ignore. Calendal’s quarrelsome professors—from arrogant wine snobs to posturing boy-philosophers to anxiety-ridden tenure-trackers—find that discourse leads to death in Mike Lewis-Beck’s tension-packed suspense novel. His gripping story line, real-time dialogue, and snarky insights into academic self-obsession dish up danger, fear, evil, and love along with bowls of bourride and glasses of Garlaban. If it’s a crime to be pedantic, Lewis-Beck’s characters may just get what they deserve.”—Holly Carver

“If academic thriller sounds like an oxymoron, that’s because you haven’t yet sampled this book. Even as unaccountable homicides disturb the Provençal idyll of an American think tank perched on the Mediterranean, a blistering narrative wit stalks the serial victims and remaining fellows alike. It’s a who-done-it crossbred with a satiric who’s-who. You don’t have to have been there–you are there in Lewis-Beck’s crisp telling. The brio of his prose captures both the threatened paradise of such a scholarly retreat and the “wish to kill” moments that erupt from its hermetic pretensions. Pages are guaranteed to turn faster here than in those scholarly drafts the fellows gather between murders to debate.”—Garrett Stewart, author of Death Sentences and Novel Violence

“ABBA (American Academics Behaving Badly) plunge to new depths in this carefully drawn and exquisitely rendered mystery revealing the first scholarly mass murderers on the French Riviera. Delightful, insightful, vengeful!—Jim Harris

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catstep Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 098284770X
• ISBN 13: 9780982847701
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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