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Merlot Murder: A Wine Country Mystery
Category: Fiction: Mystery
Author: Ellen Crosby
Copyright/published Year: 2006 by Scribner
ISBN: 0743289900
Binding: Cloth
A phone call at two thirty in the morning is never good news.
Lucie Montgomery's semi-estranged brother, Eli, calls her in
France to tell her their father, Leland, has been killed in a
hunting accident on the family's five-hundred-acre Virginia
vineyard just as the fall harvest is about to begin. By the time
he calls, Eli has already made funeral arrangements with what
Lucie argues is indecent haste. It is an emotional trip home -
the first since an automobile accident two years ago, which left
Lucie disabled and dependent on a cane. Her family's once elegant
home and winery are now shabby and run-down, thanks to her
father's penchant for fringy business deals. Eli, also
cash-strapped and desperate to support his new wife's extravagant
lifestyle, has already convinced their rebellious younger sister,
Mia, to sell the debt-ridden estate and reap the profits from the
valuable land it sits on, overruling Lucie's protests. On the eve
of the funeral Lucie's godfather, Fitz, a partner in the family
business, tells her Leland's death was no accident. Whoever
killed him was motivated by the potential sale of the vineyard.
It is the last conversation she will have with Fitz. Now the lone
holdout preventing the vineyard sale, Lucie realizes she's next
in line for another "accident." With her greedy brother,
hell-raising sister, and a seemingly cut-rate vintner hired by
Leland just before he died, all the suspects are disturbingly
close to home. Unsure whom she can trust, Lucie must uncover the
truth about the deaths of her father and godfather - and oversee
a successful harvest to save the vineyard she loves. Set in the
historic heart of Virginia's horse and hunt country, The Merlot
Murders is filled with fascinating detail about the science and
alchemy of wine making.
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