Sally Pane studied French at State University of New York Oswego and the Sorbonne before receiving her Masters Degree in French Literature from the University of Colorado where she wrote CAMUS AND THE AMERICAS: A Thematic Analysis of Three Works Based on His Journaux de Voyage. Her career includes more than 20 years of translating and teaching French and Italian at Berlitz and at University of Colorado Boulder. She has worked in scientific, legal and literary translation; her literary translations include OPERATIC ARIAS; SINGERS EDITION, and REALITY AND THE UNTHEORIZABLE by Clément Rosset, along with a number of titles in the Winemaker Detective series. She also served as the interpreter for the government cabinet of Rwanda and translated for Dian Fossey’s Digit Fund. In addition to her passion for French, she has studied Italian at Colorado University, in Rome and in Siena. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband.

Books by Sally Pane

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.