Description:

After the most grueling harvest in Violet Vineyard’s twenty-year history, Clare de Montagne is looking forward to her first ever Crush Party. The weather is perfect, the food is fantastic, and the wine is superb. The guests are a mixed bag of thirty old friends, two dozen neighbors, ten business associates…
And one murderer.
No one except Claire is surprised when wine auctioneer Dimitri Pappos is found floating face-down in one of Violet’s wine fermentation tanks. Though Dimitri had arrived in Napa only a year before his death, he had quickly managed to create an army of enemies. And every one of them seemed to have shown up at Claire’s party.
By the time Napa County Sheriff Hunter Drake has questioned the partygoers, the suspect list is almost as long as the guest list, but when Samson Xenos, Claire’s crusty old winemaker and resident curmudgeon, is arrested for the crime, she finds herself thrust into the middle of another murder investigation. An investigation that threatens not only Samson’s freedom, but also Claire’s relationship with Hunter.
As the killer begins to eliminate every potential witness, Claire races to identify him and stumbles across a chilling, long buried secret that puts her own life in jeopardy.

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From the Author

The story of Violet Vineyard and its proprietress, Claire de Montagne, continues with the latest installment of the Violet Vineyard Murder Mysteries, 'A Vintage to Die For.'
     Once again Claire and her crew are dropped into the middle of a murder investigation while trying to keep Violet Vineyard afloat for another year. But this time the murder victim has no shortage of enemies and Hunter Drake and Claire are overwhelmed with suspects.
     As the investigation progresses, Claire and Hunter's relationship hits rocky ground. They find themselves pitted against each other in a race to find the killer before he kills again...and again.

The wine industry has always fascinated me, and Napa Valley has to be one of the most picturesque locales in the country. Could there be a better place to base a mystery? Not from a writer's perspective! Great views, great people, spectacular wine, and time to write, who could ask for more?
     This book was even more fun to write than the last installment, though it took just as long to research and develop. I enjoyed returning to Napa Valley and to the cast of characters that were introduced in 'Dead on the Vine.' I also enjoyed a look at the seamier side of the wine industry, and I hope you do too!

From the Back Cover

Paperback edition coming in January!