The Merlot Murders (Wine Country Mystery #1)

“Finely ladled suspense,” says the Sun-Sentinel about the complex flavor of Ellen Crosby’s first novel in the Wine Country Mystery series, set in the wealthy Blue Ridge wine country of northern Virginia, where vineyard heiress and amateur sleuth Lucie Montgomery must find a killer or lose her cherished family heritage.

A phone call at two thirty in the morning is never good news. Lucie Montgomery’s semiestranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her their father, Leland, has been kil...