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Jean-Pierre Alaux

Biography

Jean-Pierre Alaux

Jean-Pierre Alaux is a magazine, radio and TV journalist when he is not writing novels in southwestern France. He is the grandson of a winemaker and exhibits a real passion for wine and winemaking. For him, there is no greater common denominator than wine. He gets a sparkle in his eye when he talks about the Winemaker Detective, which he coauthors with Noël Balen.

Jean-Pierre Alaux

Books by Jean-Pierre Alaux

Montmartre Mysteries (Winemaker Detective Book 8)
written by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen, translated by Sally Pane - Crime, Fiction, Mystery
Wine expert Benjamin Cooker travels to the French capital, where his is called to help care for some vineyards in Montmartre, a neighborhood full of memories for him. He stops in on an old friend. Arthur Solacroup left the Foreign Legion to open a wine shop good enough to be in the Cooker Guide. An attempted murder brings the past back into the present. But which past?
Flambé in Armagnac (Winemaker Detective Book 7)
written by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen, translated by Sally Pane - Crime, Fiction, Mystery

In the heart of Gascony, a fire ravages the warehouse of one of Armagnac’s top estates, killing the master distiller. Wine expert Benjamin Cooker is called in to estimate the value of the losses. But Cooker and his assistant Virgile want to know more. There is more than one disgruntled inhabitant in this small town. As we witness the time-honored process of Armagnac distillation and the day-to-day activities of the hunt, the market place, and the struggle for power and duck confit, we get a glimpse of the traditions of southwestern France where this mystery of possible arson and murder lies below the surface.