Wildfire: A Wine Country Mystery

by Scott Bury

Overview

Wildfires swept across California wine country in 2017, destroying thousands of homes and businesses and killing dozens of people. Law school grad and single mother Tara Rezeck finds herself in the middle of the catastrophe. When she returns to her job at Sonoma's most prestigious vineyard, she finds her employer's body in the ashes.The question that challenges her brains and her legal training is: was it an accident? Or was his body burned to hide evidence of murder?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987846096
Publisher:	Independent Authors International
Publication date:	03/28/2018
Series:	Wine Country Mystery Series , #1
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Scott Bury can't stay in one category.

After a 20-year career in journalism, he turned to writing fiction. "Sam, the Strawb Part," a children's story, came out in 2011, with all the proceeds going to an autism charity. Next was a paranormal short story for grown-ups, "Dark Clouds."

The Bones of the Earth, a historical fantasy, came out in 2012. It was followed in 2013 with One Shade of Red, an erotic romance.

The Eastern Front trilogy tells the true story of Maurice Bury, a Canadian drafted into the USSR's Red Army to face the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Army of Worn Soles, the first volume, was published in 2014, followed by Under the Nazi Heel in 2016 and Walking Out of War in 2017.

Scott Bury has been invited to contribute to three Kindle Worlds. For the Jet Kindle World, he published Jet-Stealth in July 2015. The same week, he published Torn Roots for the Lei Crime Kindle World. He has since published three more Lei Crime Kindle World books: Palm Trees & Snowflakes (December 2015), Dead Man Lying (2016) and Echoes (2017).

For the Sydney Rye Kindle World, Scott published The Wife Line in 2016, and The Three-Way in 2017.

In between writing books and blog posts, Scott helped found an author's cooperative publishing venture, Independent Authors International. He is also President of author's professional association BestSelling Reads.

He lives in Ottawa with his two mighty sons, two pesky cats and a very understanding wife.

Table of Contents

Contents

An open door 9

Smoke and ash 18

Orientation 30

Breakdowns 45

Ignition 48

Evacuation 61

Treatment 71

Return to the winery 80

The electrical panel 94

Feeding the firefighters 106

A reassuring video call 118

Forensics 122

Funeral 130

Break-in 136

Legacy 150

Nicole 155

The jewelry store 160

Cameron 165

Documentation 173

The offer 180

The law office 186

The vineyard 200

The vagaries of making wine 204

The intruder 207

Unanswered questions 213

Following Roberto 216

Truth 222

Wild fire 229

Family 238

Epilogue 243

Dear Reader: 248

La Cucina Veal Marsala 251

About the author 252

Books by Scott Bury 253

Editorial Reviews

"It starts out at a run, and keeps you hooked til the end."

"The author has a way of writing that it was like you were experiencing the scenery and wildfires right along with the characters."

"Scott Bury made me feel like I was right there with Tara in the inferno burning around the winery restaurant."

"This book keeps the reader guessing (as all good mysteries must), and proves, once again, that author Bury knows how to spin a yarn."

"I've really enjoyed Scott Bury's mysteries, as well as his historical novels about WWII, but this one, his first venture into crime/thriller fiction, is really good!"

From the Publisher