Golden Poison

  • An exciting and gripping thriller about the disappearance of the bees and the honey business
  • English Sample translation by Laura Caton available 
  • SPIEGEL bestseller (highest position #3)
  • Over 750,000 copies of the Xavier Kieffer series sold

When his beekeeper dies and his hives disappear, Luxembourg chef Xavier Kieffer starts investigating. Is the death somehow connected to the global honey business?

For his restaurant, former star chef Xavier Kieffer has a beekeeper produce special honey from Luxembourg’s lower town. When the man suddenly dies and his hives are nowhere to be found, Kieffer begins investigating. Together with his girlfriend, food critic Valérie Gabin, he quickly finds himself at the center of a gigantic scandal that stretches halfway around the globe and threatens both the purity of honey and the survival of the bees. Can they prevent the world market from being flooded with adulterated honey? Can they stop their adversaries before it’s too late?

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 04.11.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-05464-4
  • 480 Pages
  • Series: Die Xavier-Kieffer-Krimis
  • Author: Tom Hillenbrand
Golden Poison
Tom Hillenbrand Golden Poison
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Tom Hillenbrand

Tom Hillenbrand is the author of numerous nonfiction books and novels, including the culinary thrillers featuring Luxembourg chef Xavier Kieffer as an investigator. One million copies of his books have been sold, they have won multiple awards, appear regularly on the SPIEGEL bestseller list and were translated into numerous languages.