Peter King, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-28366-7
King (Eat, Drink and Be Buried, etc.) delivers mixed results in the seventh outing for his Gourmet Detective, this time aboard a luxury train. The journey begins in Munich, winds its way through the Alps, with stops in Austria, Hungary and the...
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Peter King, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-59414-645-9
Set in 1870 London, King's lively first in a new series introduces hansom cab driver Ned Parker, who hides out with such colorful cohorts as Smiling Sid, Paddy Reilly and Benny the Brain at Hangman's Corner, a former gallows site in Battersea Park....
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A surfeit of menu descriptions, both medieval and modern, an overloaded plot and a large cast of characters can't disguise the essential thinness of this sixth book in King's Gourmet Detective series (after 2000's A Healthy Place to Die).
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Peter King, Author Roberts Rinehart Publishers $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-57098-262-0
The title of this propaganda-heavy first novel by New York Congressman King is from the Yeats poem ""Easter 1916"": ""Wherever green is worn,/All changed, changed utterly:/A terrible beauty is born."" While he proves himself a capable craftsman,...
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Peter King, Author Simon & Schuster $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74704-6
While some people think that pro football is a game in which 22 65, 285-pound behemoths crash into one another to move a ball a few yards, Sports Illustrated reporter King argues otherwise. Players, he maintains, are highly intelligent, especially...
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Peter King, Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-24269-5
An intriguing element of the Gourmet Detective series (Spiced to Death, etc.) is the identity of the otherwise nameless sleuth. In this fifth feast of a food mystery, he agrees to fill in for his colleague, Carver Armitage, at the sumptuous Swiss...
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Peter King, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-312-28365-0
The Gourmet Detective scours New Orleans for a missing cookbook and gastronomical heaven in the latest installment (after last year's Eat, Drink, and Be Buried) of Peter King's mystery series for foodies, Roux the Day. What begins as a reasonably
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Peter King, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $34.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7475-0080-3
``This book is about people who don't feel that a garden is a garden is a garden.'' To overleap convention, and avoid ``designing in aspic,'' the 40 designers profiled here have wandered down many garden paths, some ``ceremonial'' and ``ramrod...
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Peter King, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-14346-6
This series debut by a Cordon Bleu chef leads readers on a cook's tour of haute cuisine, replete with tantalizing descriptions of food and its preparation, robust wit and an appropriately culinary murder. London's ""Gourmet Detective,"" whose...
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Peter King, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-18090-4
In his third foray into mystery (after Spiced to Death), the Gourmet Detective gets to frolic through the vineyards and fine restaurants of Provence. He's hired by the English owners of the large Willesford vineyard in Provence to learn why the...
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Peter King, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-15661-9
Extremely muddled plotting and sloppy explanations mar King's follow-up to The Gourmet Detective (1996). When a shipment of Ko Feng, a treasured spice of the ancient world that hasn't been seen or tasted in 500 years, arrives at JFK airport in New...
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