Mads Gourmand buys the burned-down Fjord Pavilion in Haubjerg. He establishes a restaurant with ambitions for Michelin stars.
At the same time, he acquires the right to supply Haubjerg's pensioners with their daily meals.
That kind of thing does not happen without penalty in a medium-sized Danish provincial town, and the consequences are not long in coming.
As people from the administration of the municipality fall victim to a killer, the sensitive private detective Daniel Dreyer must eventually take action.
GOURMAND is the second thriller in the series DANIEL & THE DEADLY SINS with the sin of Gluttony as its subject.
GOURMAND is a stand-alone sequel to THE PRICE OF GREED.
Genre: FICTION / Crime
Has just recently been published - and so far as an e-book, not yest as a paperback. No sale numbers has therefore been reported.
Chapter 01 – THE FJORD PAVILION
Friday, February 3
In Haubjerg, people often snickered when you mentioned the Fjord Pavilion in Lystskoven. It was a fact that many older people in the city had been conceived there on the occasion of the place's renowned summer balls.
Time went on, young people in the next generations looked for new pleasures, and the Fjord Pavilion faded to a pitiful shadow of its former glory. The wear of the elements peeled paint away from the whitewashed buildings, a musty and stale smell took hold of the rooms with the breathtaking views of the fjord, the bowling alley was crushed by a rotten tree during an autumn storm, and the kitchen became so small that nobody drove out of town to enjoy a couple of thick sandwiches on the terrace any more. A local carpenter filed a bankruptcy petition on the place.
Then, one December night, everything just went wrong. The fire probably started in the kitchen, and the Fjord Pavilion was turned into a pile of ashes with a few charred uprights in less than an hour. Everybody in Haubjerg talked about insurance fraud, but there was never any case for that. The insurance payout quickly disappeared into the pockets of the creditors, and the former owner left the city, nobody knew where to. The bankrupt estate was now run by credit union lawyers who asked that the property be put up for a forced auction.
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Translated by Françoise Chardonnier
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