What is the title of your latest release?
MURDER MOST DELICIOUS
What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
An American Sommelier who has lost her sense of taste is interviewing for a job at a bistro when the chef dies of poisoning, leaving her the primary suspect.
How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
The setting of this novel, the 7th arrondissement of Paris, was the inspiration for the novel. I knew that this mystery would be set in Paris from the very beginning.
Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
YES!!
What are three words that describe your hero?
Curious, determined, fun.
What’s something you learned while writing this book?
This book is full of French culture- food, wine, perfume—so I learned a lot about these things.
Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
With this novel, I wrote the full draft first, then went back and edited it.
What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
French fries and crème brulée
Describe your writing space/office!
I have a large desk on which there are paper weights, fountain pens, lots of jars of ink and my favorite paper: Clairfontaine. I write by hand, so my writing space reflects that.
Who is an author you admire?
I love Donna Tartt’s work, and I knew I wanted to become a writer after reading Colette.
Is there a book that changed your life?
MURDER ON THE RUE MORGUE by Edgar Allen Poe
Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published). Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I have worked with my editor Andrea Walker for three books, and we discussed this book together before I began to write it. Andrea was part of the process from the very start.
What’s your favorite genre to read?
Literary mystery
What’s your favorite movie?
No favorite, but I love high concept action movies
What is your favorite season?
Fall
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
A small, intimate dinner at my favorite restaurant.
What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
The Diplomat. I think the characters are incredibly well drawn and love the dialogue.
What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
French! Italian is a close second.
What do you do when you have free time?
I read, go to the gym, and sleep.
What can readers expect from you next?
I am at work on a new mystery novel, this one under Danielle Trussoni.
Narrator: Imani Jade Powers
In Paris, murder is a dish best served with chocolate éclairs.
Starting over in Paris was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime for American sommelier Olivia Beech—until her dream job ends in murder.
Once a rising star in the wine world, Olivia was one of a handful of women in the world to hold the distinction of being a Master Sommelier before COVID stole her sense of taste—and her career. Adrift and depressed, she gets a second chance when beloved celebrity chef Jacques de Bizet invites her to Paris for a job interview. But as the interview begins, he collapses, poisoned, making Olivia the prime suspect.
Olivia is in trouble, but she has an advantage: her extraordinary nose is still sharp enough to detect the subtlest of scents, including the poison that killed Jacques. Olivia knows she’s innocent, but how can she prove it?
Enter the Paris Neighborhood Watch, an eccentric circle of locals determined to protect their quartier. At the helm is the mysterious Augusta Dupin, a brilliant but agoraphobic detective, aided by her intuitive British shorthair cat, Chateaubriand. Olivia and Augusta join forces with a group of neighborhood amateur sleuths—a pâtissier, a café owner, a part-time librarian, a florist and a kind-hearted cop who may be falling for Olivia—to solve the crime, a search that helps them find not only the killer but fresh purpose in their lives.
Warm, witty, and brimming with food, friendship, and intrigue, Murder Most Delicious transports you to a cozy Parisian neighborhood where the comforts of French daily life soothe the soul even in the darkest times.
Mystery Culinary [ Harper Perennial, On Sale: May 26, 2026, e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9780063566262 / eISBN: 9780063470149 ]
Danielle Postel-Vinay is the French alter ego of the New York Times bestselling author Danielle Trussoni, whose fiction has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Prix Bête Noir des Libraires 2025, and has been translated into over thirty languages.
Danielle has been a Francophile since her first trip to France when she was sixteen. She owned a house in the South of France and lived there full-time from 2009 to 2013, when she began studying wine seriously, going to vineyards, and taking wine courses with sommeliers. Her passion for wine has followed her stateside—she took sommelier classes with Master Sommelier Laura Maniec in New York City. She eventually married a Frenchman and spends part of every year with her family in Paris.
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