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Summary: Elegant
Review: 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.
Rating: 
Summary: Very stylistic, but not much meat
Review: Carmen Posadas has managed to create a unique voice for herself in the book "Little Indiscretions." The characters are quite original and each has their own little quirks which makes the book enjoyable to read. I did find the story line to be hard to follow at times. I don't want to reveal any spoilers, however, the ending just didn't quite feel right to me. It seemed to be reaching a little and left me feeling very unsatisfied.
Rating:
Summary: Very stylistic, but not much meat
Review: Carmen Posadas has managed to create a unique voice for herself in the book "Little Indiscretions." The characters are quite original and each has their own little quirks which makes the book enjoyable to read. I did find the story line to be hard to follow at times. I don't want to reveal any spoilers, however, the ending just didn't quite feel right to me. It seemed to be reaching a little and left me feeling very unsatisfied.
Rating:
Summary: Little Indiscretions
Review: Nestor Chaffino, a pointy-moustachioed pastry chef who was privy to
too many secrets, found himself standing in the dark at 4:00 in the
morning among the frozen carcasses in Ernesto Teldi's 1980-s model
Westinghouse cool room, the door having swung shut behind him with a
click and, oddly enough, a laugh. At twenty degrees below zero,
Nestor didn't manage to live until morning, when a Häagen
Dazs-seeking employee finally opened the door, but he did have time
to come to an imperfect understanding of the circumstances of his
death. The fortune teller he had seen two weeks before had given him
enough information to figure out some of it.
In Little Indiscretions Carmen Posadas pieces together the coincidences and
peccadilloes that surrounded Nestor's demise--not his own failings,
as he was a discreet confidant, and a loyal friend, and he ran a
clean kitchen, but those of his acquaintances: from his friend
Carlos's love affair with a picturesque woman to the skeletons in the
Teldis' separate bedroom closets to the unwelcome longings of widower
Serafin Tous.
Posadas's story is a good one, and the reader is eager, nearing the
end, to discover which--if any--of the indiscretions uncovered in its
course has culminated in Nestor's death by freezing. But I found the
solution to Nestor's puzzle, the reason, finally, that the freezer
door closed behind him, hard to believe. The story was also more
difficult to follow than it might have been because the author tells
it in disconnected chunks, going backward in time from Nestor's
death, then forward, and incorporating memories of much older, yet
still haunting, events.
Debra Hamel -- book-blog reviews
Author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
Rating:
Summary: Little Indiscretions
Review: Nestor Chaffino, a pointy-moustachioed pastry chef who was privy to
too many secrets, found himself standing in the dark at 4:00 in the
morning among the frozen carcasses in Ernesto Teldi's 1980-s model
Westinghouse cool room, the door having swung shut behind him with a
click and, oddly enough, a laugh. At twenty degrees below zero,
Nestor didn't manage to live until morning, when a Häagen
Dazs-seeking employee finally opened the door, but he did have time
to come to an imperfect understanding of the circumstances of his
death. The fortune teller he had seen two weeks before had given him
enough information to figure out some of it.In Little Indiscretions Carmen Posadas pieces together the coincidences and
peccadilloes that surrounded Nestor's demise--not his own failings,
as he was a discreet confidant, and a loyal friend, and he ran a
clean kitchen, but those of his acquaintances: from his friend
Carlos's love affair with a picturesque woman to the skeletons in the
Teldis' separate bedroom closets to the unwelcome longings of widower
Serafin Tous. Posadas's story is a good one, and the reader is eager, nearing the
end, to discover which--if any--of the indiscretions uncovered in its
course has culminated in Nestor's death by freezing. But I found the
solution to Nestor's puzzle, the reason, finally, that the freezer
door closed behind him, hard to believe. The story was also more
difficult to follow than it might have been because the author tells
it in disconnected chunks, going backward in time from Nestor's
death, then forward, and incorporating memories of much older, yet
still haunting, events. My rating: B
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