Description
“Finely ladled suspense,” says the Sun-Sentinel about the complex flavor of Ellen Crosby’s debut mystery set in the wealthy Blue Ridge wine country of northern Virginia, where vineyard heiress Lucie Montgomery must find a killer or lose her cherished family heritage.
Leland Montgomery’s death was deemed accidental, but when his daughter Lucie returns home from France, she finds the once-thriving family vineyard run down, collapsing under huge debt. Lucie’s godfather warns her that Leland’s demise may have been the result of an attempt to force the sale of the vineyard. Her extravagant brother and rebellious sister are determined to sell the estate, and there’s something suspicious about the vintner her father hired right before he died. When another oenophile turns up dead, asphyxiated in a tank of Merlot, Lucie — the lone holdout preventing the vineyard’s sale — realizes she’s next in line for an “accident.” Can she trust in the proverb in vino veritas — in wine there is truth — as she attempts to survive a very bad year for Merlot?
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ellen Crosby
Published: 08/12/2017
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN: 9781501188435
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 8.30″ L x 5.50″ W
About the Author
Ellen Crosby is the author of Multiple Exposure, the first book in a series featuring photojournalist Sophie Medina. She has also written six books in the Virginia wine country mystery series. A former freelance reporter for The Washington Post, Moscow correspondent for ABC Radio News, and an economist at the US Senate, Crosby lives in Virginia with her family. Learn more about her at EllenCrosby.com.
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