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The Critic

On sale

30th May 2013

Price: £9.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781782068860

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GAILLAC, SOUTH-WEST FRANCE.

An unsolved case.

Gil Petty, America’s most celebrated wine critic, is found strung up in a vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine.

An un-cracked code.

For forensic expert Enzo Macleod, the key to this unsolved murder lies in decoding Petty’s mysterious reviews – which could make or break a vineyard’s reputation.

An uncorked criminal.

Enzo finds that beneath the tranquil façade of French viticulture lurks a back-stabbing community riddled with rivalry – and someone who is ready to stop him even if they have to kill again.

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Reviews

Mail on Sunday
A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable
Peter James, on Entry Island
A wonderfully complex book
Mark Billingham
He is a terrific writer doing something different
Sophie Hannah
From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer
Kate Mosse
Wonderfully compelling
Guardian
Western France - now May's own stamping ground - is as much a character in the book as the Hebrides were in his formidable Isle of Lewis sequence
New York Times
Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth
Boyd Tonkin, on the Lewis trilogy, Independent
One of the best regarded crime series of recent years
Alex Gray
Lyrical, empathetic and moving
Sunday Times
May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships
Barry Forshaw, Independent
Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization
Scotland on Sunday
Dark, exciting and atmospheric
Glasgow Sunday Herald
Powerful and authentic
Irish Times
Fast, exciting ... an entertaining read that will also give food for thought
Tangled Web
A tense and atmospheric thriller with a heart-stopping ending
The Good Book Guide
Truly the best of May's series so far, this is not to be missed