- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (Mar 28 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312198914
- ISBN-13: 978-0312198916
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,587,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
The Gourmet Detective (Spiced to Death, LJ 7/97) ultimately confronts dire danger when called upon to choose which of three talented Italian chefs will work at a fancy new restaurant. Their cooking competition, unfortunately, results in murder and more. Fast fun, delightful characters.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The Gourmet Detective, an ex-chef, so far nameless(Spiced to Death, 1997, etc.), has been hired by famed actor/restaurateur Desmond Lansdowne to take on what appears a delightful mission: to travel to Italy and choose the best chef of the three generally acknowledged as that countrys finest. Lansdowne wants to open what he insists will be the best Italian restaurant in London, and the chosen chef will rule its kitchen. Gourmet, whose ostensible mission will be to gather material for a restaurant guide (... la Michelin), is met in Italy by charming Francesca, a friend of Desmonds who runs an escort service and knows everyone. In Bologna, the two are invited by chef Silvio Pellegrini to visit a mozzarella factory and a buffalo herd at his farma visit that ends with Pellegrinis death in what looks like murder. Gourmets life is threatened tooby a man dressed in a monks robe as well as by others. Between dissertations on the wines and regional dishes of various areas, theres a murky plot involving extramarital affairs, legal chicanery, and greedy business dealsmost of it near-incomprehensible except to theatrically handsome policeman Captain Carlo Cataldo, who seems to have a grip on the confusing mess. For some, wines and meals to die for. Others may feel a compelling urge to head for the nearest McDonalds. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Ah! the Italian way of life...,
By Karina A. Suarez "Karina A. Fogliani-Ahmed" (Walt Disney World, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Death al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery (Paperback)
I have to say I enjoyed this book very much, but I supposed I'm biased, since my background is Italian. The book is entertaining and very informative in regards to Italy, the Italians and their food. It's not a bad mystery but it is kind of confusing. I still can't connect the murder with the purpose of the Gourmet Detective of having to go to Italy to pick one of the three. It is seems to have been pulled by the hairs of some voluminous Italian donnaI suppose I am getting a bit tired of Mr. King's writing style. Once you read one of his books, you've read them all. There is no actual surprise in them because all of them follow the same pattern, and after a few books diagramed in this way, one gets a bit flustered at so much predictability. I would have enjoyed this book very much if it was the first one I read from within the series. It is certainly better than the first one - called, not surprisingly, "The Gourmet Detective" - but, being the fourth one in the series, it makes no diffenrece to me at this point.
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death al dente,
By A Customer
This review is from: Death al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery (Paperback)
Peter King's writing, like a fine wine improves with age. "Death al Dente" The fourth book in the Gourmet Detective series, is possibly King's finest work to date. The food descriptions make your mouth water and the information about Italy and Italian wines is truly enlightning. Combine the food, the wine and a multiple murder mystery and you have a book well worth reading. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a penchant for culinary mysteries.
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death al dente,
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This review is from: Death al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery (Paperback)
Peter King's writing, like a fine wine improves with age. "Death al Dente" The fourth book in the Gourmet Detective series, is possibly King's finest work to date. The food descriptions make your mouth water and the information about Italy and Italian wines is truly enlightning. Combine the food, the wine and a multiple murder mystery and you have a book well worth reading. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a penchant for culinary mysteries.
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Write more Mr King,
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This review is from: DEATH AL DENTE (Hardcover)
I love all of this authors books. He brings a great mystery, a very appealing lead character and best of all an education into food. Every book has brought highly unusual food knowledge not the run of the mill found in culinary mysteries. Always has high end ingredients with historical facts and interesting vignettes. Highly recommended to foodies.
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Death al Dente, 4th "Gourmet Detective" Novel,
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This review is from: DEATH AL DENTE (Hardcover)
Peter King created the concept of "The Gourmet Detective" with his first novel in that continuing series by that exact name. The Gourmet Detective investigates issues related to gourmet food, fine wines, exotic ingredients and the recipes involved. In this novel, "Death al Dente," the fourth in the continuing series, the Gourmet Detective is sent to Bologna, Italy by his client to evaluate each of three world-class chefs so that one may be lured away to be the star of a new and best Italian restaurant to be located in England.A common theme throughout these Peter King novels is found herein - that an outwardly simple task is made troublesome by mischief, mayhem and murder, with the Gourmet Detective in the middle of it all. He is helped in this task by his beautiful, wilful and enticing locally-sourced Italian escort, the lovely Francesca, who not only helps solve the crime but is introduced as a key character and a foil to the Gourmet Detective. She also provides an insight as to the author's depiction of beautiful, sexual, passionate and self-confident Italian womanhood. Taking place in Bologna and the surrounding area, the novel transports you to that classic Italian city, the local life style, it's cuisine, wines, cheeses, archecture and historical value. This is escapist entertainment and adventure in its purest form, and an inexpensive way to learn about Bologna, its fine cuisine, wines and colorful inhabitants, as portrayed by characters in this novel. |
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