France-based comedian Ian Moore has signed a new deal for his latest novel.

Farrago has acquired Death and Croissants, the first book in a series of "humorous mysteries" set in the Loire region. 

Publication is scheduled for July 2021.

The blurb says: "Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in Vallée de Folle, a fictional valley in the Loire, France. When one of Richard’s older guests disappears, he is exposed to a mysterious world of crime. Things become really serious when someone murders Ava Gardner, one of his beloved hens. The disappearance of a guest is one thing, but you just don’t mess with a fellow’s hens!"

Moore commutes regularly from France to the UK to gig at venues such as The Comedy Store and also helps to run a B&B in the Loire Valley where he lives with his Franco-English wife and three children.

He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival and headlined the Reading and Leeds music festivals. He performed in the Just For Laughs’ Britcom showcase in Montreal and went on to headline the Worldcom show at the festival’s finale.

Previous books include A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France (Summersdale, 2013), and C'est Modnifique!: Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France (Summersdale, 2014)

Picture: © Andy Hollingworth Archive.