Skip to main content

Noël Balen

Biography

Noël Balen

Noël lives in Paris, where he shares his time between writing, making records and lecturing on music. He plays bass, is a music critic and has authored a number of books about musicians in addition to his novel and short-story writing.
 

Noël Balen

Books by Noël Balen

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.