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.
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