When Nestor Chaffinch, pastry cook to the rich and famous, is found frozen to death in the cold room of Ernesto Teldi's summer mansion with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are shaking in their shoes. As a private chef to the upper classes, Nestor knew too much about them. Ernesto Teldi, owner of the mansion, has a variety of political skeletons in his cupboard; Adela, his wife is a closet adulterer; Serafin Tous, the judge, dallies with young boys, while spoilt rich kid Chloe is anguished by her brother's accidental death, for which she blames herself. Nestor himself had some secrets up his sleeve, one of which is a little book of perfect puddings he has been collecting all his life. But the guests in the house fear this book contains much more than a mere list of naughty desserts. But would any of them go so far as to knock off the chef for what he might know about their pasts? Could his undignified death in the cold room be just a complete accident? A pastry-light concoction of crime and clairvoyance - this wicked whodunnit by Carmen Posadas is literary detective fiction at its most satisfying.

Little Indiscretions

Literature & Fiction

Carmen Posadas

Contemporary

Black Swan.

A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain's top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is both an ingenious whodunit and a sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he's invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When he is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer, all the party guests become suspects. Not since Nick and Nora Charles's last cocktail party has such a merry band of mischief makers convened. 
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Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery

Humor & Satire

Thorndike Press

A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are the natural suspects. But who could have it in for a harmless cook? The answer, it turns out, is just about everyone who happens to be staying in the house. Nestor, while quietly stirring his sauces and whisking his egg whites, had decided to publish a compendium of gastronomic secrets that revealed, along with the culinary tricks of his trade, more than a few damning details of the hosts’ and houseguests’ private lives. To what lengths would they go to ensure that Nestor maintained a more permanent sense of discretion? Not since Nick and Nora Charles’s last cocktail party has such a merry band of mischief makers convened in one place. Little Indiscretions marks the discovery of a phenomenal writer with tremendous flair. It’s a gourmet treat readers will pounce on.

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Nada es lo que parece (Extra Alfaguara) (Spanish Edition)

Espanol Santillana Universidad de Salamanca

Pocas veces la realidad ha dado un personaje de vida tan intensa y aventurera como Teresa Cabarrus la dama espanola que segun la leyenda logro acabar con el Terror en la Revolucion francesa. Para sus detractores una arribista que hizo de la frivolidad su religion y de la seduccion una forma de supervivencia. Para sus admiradores una mujer que consiguio salvar a muchos inocentes de la muerte y que merecio que la llamaran Nuestra Senora del Buen Socorro. En lo que todos estan de acuerdo es en que la turbulenta historia de amor que vivio con el revolucionario Tallien fue el momento culminante de una vida extraordinaria: aristocrata rea de la guillotina amante de asesinos y de futuros emperadores fue revolucionaria y tambien princesa y madre de diez hijos. Una mujer asi merece ser la protagonista de una novela memorable: Carmen Posadas la rescata del olvido y recrea en primera persona su vida apasionada y llena de claroscuros.

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Planeta do Brasil

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