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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375508856
• ISBN13: 9780375508851
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"

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.