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Treachery in Bordeaux (Mission à Haut-Brion)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Anne Trager - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Benjamin Cooker is a renowned winemaker and critic turned gentleman detective who sets out to find who is trying to take down the prestigious grand cru Moniales Haut-Brion. Is it negligence or sabotage? Who would want to target this esteemed vintner? Cooker and his assistant Virgile Lanssien search the city and the vineyards for answers, giving listeners and inside view of this famous wine region. Treachery in Bordeaux is the first of the 20-book Winemaker Detective series.
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Treachery in Bordeaux (Mission à Haut-Brion)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-07-14
- Language: English
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Grand Cru Heist (Pour qui sonne l'Angélus)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Anne Trager - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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One winter day in Paris, renowned wine critic Benjamin Cooker's world gets turned upside down when his car gets highjacked. He loses his treasured tasting notebook and his feeling of safety. To recover, he retreats to the region around Tours, sure that the wine and off-season calm will restore is sense of self. There a flamboyant British dandy, a spectacular blue-eyed blond, a zealous concierge and touchy local police disturb his well-deserved rest.
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Grand Cru Heist (Pour qui sonne l'Angélus)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-07-14
- Language: English
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Nightmare in Burgundy (Cauchemar dans les Côtes de Nuits)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Sally Pane - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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After Treachery in Bordeaux, and Grand Cru Heist, our Winemaker Detective leaves his native Bordeaux to go to Burgundy for a dream wine tasting trip to France's other key wine-making region. Between Beaune, Dijon and Nuits-Saint-Georges, it turns into a troubling nightmare when he stumbles upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era. What do they mean? What dark secrets from the deep past are haunting the Clos de Vougeot? Does blood need to be shed to sharpen people's memory?
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Simply boring
- By Amanda K on 26-07-21
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Nightmare in Burgundy (Cauchemar dans les Côtes de Nuits)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 3
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-07-14
- Language: English
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Cognac Conspiracies [Le dernier coup de Jarnac]
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Sally Pane - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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The heirs to one of the oldest Cognac estates in France face a hostile takeover by foreign investors. Renowned wine expert Benjamin Cooker is called in to audit the books. In what he thought was a sleepy provincial town, he is stonewalled, crosses paths with his first love, and stands up to high-level state officials keen on controlling the buyout. Meanwhile irresistible Virgile mingles with the local population until a drowning changes the stakes.
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Cognac Conspiracies [Le dernier coup de Jarnac]
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 5
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-05-15
- Language: English
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Deadly Tasting (St. Pétrus et le Saigneur)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Sally Pane - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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A serial killer is on the loose in Bordeaux. A local chief detective calls wine expert Benjamin Cooker to the crime scene of a brutal murder. The killer has left a strange calling card: 12 wine glasses lined up in a semi-circle with the first one filled with wine. Cooker is charged with the task of identifying the fabulous grand cru and is astonished by what he learns. A second victim is found, with two glasses filled. Is the killer intentionally leaving clues about his victims and his motives?
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Deadly Tasting (St. Pétrus et le Saigneur)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 4
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-10-14
- Language: English
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Tainted Tokay (Buveurs en Serie)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noel Balen, Sally Pane - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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France's top wine expert Benjamin Cooker sets off to enjoy the delights of Vienna, a romantic ride down the Danube, a gourmand's visit to Budapest, and a luxury train through the enchanting Hungarian countryside. All too soon, stolen wallets, disappearing passports, guides who are a bit too obliging, and murder mar the trip. Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Cooker's handsome assistant Virgile faces an annoying rival and a mildew crisis in the vineyards just as Cooker's lab technician is the victim of a mugging.
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Tainted Tokay (Buveurs en Serie)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 11
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-05-16
- Language: English
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Late Harvest Havoc [Vengeances tardives en Alsace]
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Sally Pane - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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Disaster strikes the vineyards in Alsace. Vintners are tense and old grudges surface. The Winemaker Detective's reputation is on the line as he must find the cause before the late harvest starts. Winter is in the air in Alsace and local customs are sowing trouble, piquing the curiosity of the famous winemaker from Bordeaux, Benjamin Cooker. While the wine expert and his assistant Virgile settle into their hotel in the old city of Colmar, distinguished vineyards are attacked. Is it revenge?
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Late Harvest Havoc [Vengeances tardives en Alsace]
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 10
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 04-04-16
- Language: English
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Backstabbing in Beaujolais (Le vin nouveau n'arrivera pas)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Anne Trager - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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A business magnate calls on wine expert Benjamin Cooker to kick-start his new wine business in Beaujolais, sparking bitter rivalries. Can the Winemaker Detective and his assistant keep calculating real estate agents, taciturn winegrowers, dubious wine merchants, and suspicious deaths from delaying delivery of the world-famous Beaujolais Nouveau?
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Backstabbing in Beaujolais (Le vin nouveau n'arrivera pas)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 9
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-12-15
- Language: English
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Montmartre Mysteries (Ne tirez pas sur le caviste)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Wine expert Benjamin Cooker travels to the French capital, where he 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. But an attempted murder brings the past back into the present. But which past? The winemaker detective and his assistant, Virgile, want to know more, and their investigation leads them from the sands of Djibouti to the vineyards of Côte du Rhône.
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Montmartre Mysteries (Ne tirez pas sur le caviste)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 8
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-10-15
- Language: English
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Flambé in Armagnac
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Sally Pane - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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A small town holds fiercely on to its secrets. 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. How did the old alembic explode? Was it really an accident? Why is the estate owner, Baron de Castayrac, penniless? How legal are his dealings?
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Flambé in Armagnac
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 7
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-10-15
- Language: English
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Red-handed in Romanée-Conti (Flagrant Délit à la Romanée-Conti)
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Sally Pane - translator, Noel Balen
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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When world-renowned wine expert Benjamin Cooker's elderly father needs him most, the erudite consultant and his dashing assistant Virgile Lanssien are called away to Burgundy to orchestrate the harvest. More than just picking grapes, the Winemaker Detective must keep a delicate balance between an old-time vintner and his heir as a catastrophic hailstorm endangers some of France's most celebrated wines. Adding insult to injury, the brutal and mysterious murder of a grape picker sends shock waves through the winemaking world.
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Red-handed in Romanée-Conti (Flagrant Délit à la Romanée-Conti)
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 12
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- Language: English
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Mayhem in Margaux [Sous la robe de Margaux]
- Winemaker Detective, Book 6
- By: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen, Sally Pane - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Fine wines, dirty secrets. It's summer in Bordeaux. There's a heat wave, the vineyards are suffering, vintners are on edge, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker's daughter is visiting. A tragic car accident draws the winemaker detective and his assistant, Virgile, into a case where the stakes are very personal.
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Mayhem in Margaux [Sous la robe de Margaux]
- Winemaker Detective, Book 6
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Winemaker Detective, Book 6
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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