The fourteenth novel in Ellen Crosby’s gripping Wine Country mystery series featuring Virginia winemaker Lucia Montgomery. A twisty mystery featuring small-town rivalries, buried secrets, and full-bodied murder.

In an idyllic
vineyard murder is fermenting . . .

Five years of work. Twenty rare Venable grapevines. One champagne-soaked party at Montgomery Estate Vineyard to celebrate.

By sunrise, every vine is dead.

By breakfast, so is Wells Davis Faulkner — the scientist who kept them alive — his body laid out in the lab’s heritage garden like a message.

For Lucie, vineyard owner and reluctant amateur sleuth, the timing is no coincidence. Someone at last night’s party walked out of the vineyard a killer. Someone she poured wine for. Someone she trusted.

As Virginia’s bucolic wine country curdles around her — secret affairs, sabotaged rootstock, a fired researcher with a grudge, an investor with everything to lose — Lucie has to work out who hated Wells enough to kill him, who hated the Venable enough to poison it, and whether they’re the same person.

She has until the next harvest to find out.

Or until the killer finds her first.

Perfect for fans of Tammy Wunsch and Kate Hardy.