Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery

By Carmen Posadas

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812966317
• ISBN13: 9780812966312
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Intelligent, original, delightful

This little gem is about as far from the cliche "spunky single mom investigates murder for no fathomable reason and falls in love with the cop, recipes/crosswords/knitting patterns included" fluffy frothy books as you can get. Not only is there no spunky single mom - there's no cop. Nor are there recipes. There's a lot of talk about recipes - but that's all. Nevertheless, it passes all the tests. It's got the "Gee what happens next?" factor that keeps you turning pages. It has lovely writing (my compliments to the translator). It has non-cardboard characters whose lives are woven together in unexpected but believable ways. And if the ending isn't a tidy tying up with a big pink bow and a chocolate mint, well, life is like that. A very unusual, elegant, highly entertaining, well crafted, funny, heart-tugging and shocking novel. Just wonderful.

Elegant

A prize-winning mystery, Little Indiscretions, is based on the death of Nestor, a pastry chef who dies in a walk-in freezer that someone locks behind him. Why? Because Nestor knew secrets about just about every other character in the book. This is a very elegant, very European, very wonderful book. Recipes are included, but just as a good book doesn't answer all of a reader's questions, neither are the recipes complete enough to permit duplication. Damn.

buenisimo

Me gustaría saber a qué dirección le puedo escribir a CARMEN POSADAS?, si alguien lo sbe en algún lugar del mundo le agradecería que me lo dijera, gracias

This book devours you from beginning to end !

Keeps your mind off the every day life by inviting you to explore those little intrigues of the characters who might very well be sitting next to you..even yourself.