The wealthy Mads Gourmand buys a burnt-down restaurant. He has Michelin-stars ambitions and invests a lot of money in rebuilding and decoration.
At the same time he gets the concession to deliver the daily meals to the city´s old citizens.
This wakes animosity and envy - and the consequences follow.
When leading persons from the community staff become victims of a murderer, the empathic private investigator Daniel Dreyer must take action.
GOURMAND is the second crime novel in the series DANIEL & AND THE DEADLY SINS thematically focusing on the sin Gluttony.
GOURMAND is an alone-standing follow up to THE PRICE OF GREED.
Genre: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / GeneralThe novel was released in november 2018 and has so far sold more than 200 copies, of which many has been bought by public libraries. "Gourmand" has been met with a lot of very fine revievs. You can read them here: http://www.michaelclasen.dk/anmeldelser-1.html. 2020 it was published as an audiobook.
FJORDPAVILLONEN
fredag 3. februar
I Haubjerg lød der ofte fnis, når man omtalte Fjordpavillonens beliggenhed i Lystskoven. Det var et faktum, at ganske mange ældre mennesker i byen var blevet undfanget her i forbindelse med stedets navnkundige sommerballer.
Tiden gik, og de unge mennesker i de næste generationer søgte nye fornøjelser, og Fjordpavillonen sygnede hen til en ussel skygge af fordums glans. Vejrligets slid afskallede de hvidmalede bygninger, en hengemt og jordslået lugt indtog værelserne med den betagende fjordudsigt, keglebanen knustes under et råddent træ i en efterårs-storm, og køkkenet blev så ringe, at ingen mere kørte ud fra byen for at nyde et par stykker højt belagte smørrebrød på terrassen. En lokal tømrermester indgav konkursbegæring mod stedet.
Og en decembernat gik det så helt galt. Branden opstod vistnok i køkkenet, og på under en time var Fjordpavillonen forvandlet til en askehob med nogle få sodsværtede stolper. Mand og mand imellem taltes der i Haubjerg, om der mon var tale om forsikringssvig, men det blev der aldrig en sag ud af. Den udbetalte forsikringssum forsvandt også hurtigt ned i kreditorernes lommer, og den tidligere indehaver rejste fra byen; ingen vidste hvorhen. Konkursboet blev nu bestyret af kreditforeningens advokater, som begærede ejendommen sat på tvangsauktion.
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Author review: Robert Anderson has made an excellent translation Danish>English. He was far ahead of sceduled plans. All the way has has been very communicative. My best recomandations. |
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Author review: Kirsten Male has as always done a very fine job. She has contributed excellent in the translation not only language to language but also culture to culture. She found several blunders in the original edition. |
