Books by Peter Mayle
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review 1: I've read Peter Mayle's book, "A Year in Provence" and enjoyed it. I had never read one of his mysteries. I have missed some good reading. I enjoyed the locale (Marseille), never having been there. Reading about a place is the next best thing to being there. The Russian mobs...
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review 1: I think I've read all of Peter Mayle's books, and I really like all of them even though they are very lite. I even liked the book about the bakery. This is another wonderfully silly and stylish caper. If it were written in the 1960s it would be turned into a film with Audrey Hepb...
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review 1: So the nice French billionaire is enjoying his summer in his fabulous seaside mansion. Then a nasty Russian oligarch becomes obsessed with acquiring the mansion, which the nice billionaire doesn't want to sell. So the oligarch decides to have the billionaire killed. Of course....
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review 1: I want to give this 2.5 stars, really. I do love Peter Mayle. However, this book is not his best. The plot is fairly thin, and there really is no mystery at all to this "caper". The characters are mostly two-dimentional, the climax is almost silly, and the ending predictable. ...
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review 1: It seems I'm being over critical with my latest reads, but this book failed to grip me and keep me even remotely interested in the story, which is very simple. There's no "suspense" at all. The story concerns a straight forward theft of wine. The reader doesn't know anything a...
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review 1: This is a very pleasant book. The plot was fun, the characters were lively if somewhat unbelievable in true Mayle style, and the end was enjoyable. I read it on trains from Budapest to Florence, and it was a marvelously entertaining companion. It's not a hard hitter and you don't...