Death In The Truffle Wood

In Banon a small peaceful village in upper Provence the local community's principal source of income is the cultivation of truffles. Outsiders rarely venture to this remote region but a small group of society's drop-outs have chosen to set up home on the outskirts of the village and trouble ensues. When one of them is found dead in the freezer of a local hotel and when a further five bodies are discovered drained of blood in a family vault in the cemetery it takes all Commissaire Laviolette's considerable resources to unravel crimes that have been committed in a climate of age-old superstition and secret animosity. Not since Jean Giono has any writer been able to capture the authentic flavour spirit and traditions of Provence.