The Heat of the Kitchen: An enthralling mixture of sex, murder, drugs, French local politics and the environment...
by Tony Whelpton
Politics are a turn-off, right?Not in France they're not! And the author of this page-turner draws on more than sixty years' experience of French life and culture to enable him to fascinate and thrill you! You will be enthralled by the Macchiavellian cunning of these small-town politicians!Come with me to the French Riviera, where passions run high and the intense heat can easily transform something as mundane as a traffic jam into a murder scene! Traffic jams happen every day in the pretty little tourist trap of St. Pierre-sur-Loup, and Alain Simondi, the Mayor, is determined to find an answer. But the solution Simondi proposes is not greeted with much enthusiasm by Cécile Delpech, the leader of the opposition, a lively and attractive single mother with whom he has been carrying on an affair for some considerable time.Enter Hélène Gautier, a young, pretty and feisty reporter on the local newspaper, who is not unwilling to make use of her charms to get what she wants. But what does she want? And to what lengths will she go? Hélène is intelligent and cunning, but will her wiles prove a match for the Mayor’s experience? A solution is ultimately found to the little town’s traffic problems, but at the end of the story St. Pierre-sur-Loup will have been turned upside down in more ways than one!˃˃˃ In the battle for power in Saint-Pierre-sur-Loup there are winners and losers...But the real winner is undoubtedly the town itself, for the solution to its problems involves an ingenious combination of ecologically-friendly measures which have all been used in real-life contemporary France, but in a uniquely integrated and popular way such as you will find only in Saint-Pierre-sur-Loup! ˃˃˃ 'Living in France myself I have long suspected that local politics are Machiavellian...''But now I know they are. I strongly suspect the author of spying in my local mairie.' (Review by an Amazon Verified Purchaser)Scroll up and grab a copy today.
