Description: BLOOD RED
The not so tranquil life of a rural police lieutenant confronted with the complexities of the French wine industry.Lieutenant Lenormant has been paying for a mistake he made in his youth for years and now his past has come back to haunt him yet again. On the verge of obtaining a prestigious promotion, an anonymous letter sent to his superiors ruins his chances, and he finds himself working in the town of Beaujeu, a town lost in the heart of the Beaujolais vineyards. The post only adds insult to injury since Lenormant hates wine. Soon, an annoying American neighbor will force him to look into a wine trafficking affair. The investigation leads him into the sidelines of the official wine industry where he discovers industrial espionage at the highest levels. He even takes his inquiry as far as Italy to interview a young winemaker who seems to be linked to his investigation. He finds the woman strangely troubling, but Lenormant refuses to lose track of his objective: putting law and order back into the Beaujolais business.Brief description: Journaliste A La Croix, Jean-FranAois Fournel est A(c)galement auteur de films documentaires. Il a publiA(c) rA(c)cemment, sous le nom de StA(c)phane Alexandre, Le Coupe-ongles, aux A(c)ditions des ArA]nes, un rA(c)cit remarquA(c) sur la maladie de son fils atteint de schizophrA(c)nie. Rouge sang est son quatriA]me roman publiA(c) au Masque.