Category: Fiction: Mystery

Copyright/published Year: 2006 by Scribner

ISBN: 0743289900

Binding: Cloth

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

Condition Information

This book is 'remaindered' and may have marks on the cover and/or bottom of pages.