Ellen Crosby, Author . Scribner $24 (286p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8990-0
Like a fine wine, Crosby's debut is complex and intricate. Lucie Montgomery, an American ex-pat who's been holed up in France for two years, returns to her family's vineyard in the Virginia countryside after the death of her father in a...
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Ellen Crosby, Author . Scribner $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8992-4
A
bizarre May frost threatens Lucie Montgomery's Virginia winery operation in this highly enjoyable sequel to Crosby's
The Merlot Murders
(2006). After spending the night keeping her vines from freezing, the easily peeved Lucie is less...
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Ellen Crosby, Author . Scribner $25 (270p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5166-9
Harvest time dumps a jeroboam of trouble on the doorstep of vintner Lucie Montgomery in Crosby's fizzy third mystery set in Virginia wine country (after 2007's The Chardonnay Charade
). During an oenophilic supper at Mount Vernon,...
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Ellen Crosby, Author . Scribner $25 (261p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5168-3
When Lucie Montgomery stumbles across a skull in her vineyard—just after the tornado that almost kills her—little does she suspect the skeletons in the family closet to which the discovery will lead in Crosby's sprightly fourth...
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Ellen Crosby, Scribner, $24 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6386-3
When glamorous Rebecca Natale disappears before a black-tie gala honoring her boss, billionaire Wall Street guru Sir Thomas Asher—who's donating a collection of architectural drawings, maps, and other documents relating to the design and planning of
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Ellen Crosby. Scribner, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6388-7
In Crosby's solid sixth wine country mystery (after 2010's Viognier Vendetta), the apparent suicide of Paul Noble, a wine importer and distributor with lots of enemies, takes Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery to the vineyards of California's...
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Ellen Crosby. Scribner, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5928-3
Crosby (The Sauvignon Secret and five other wine country mysteries) introduces photojournalist Sophie Medina, in this assured tale of love, loss, and secret agendas, the first in a new series. After the disappearance of her husband, Nick Canning, an
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Ellen Crosby. Scribner, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5937-5
Early in Crosby’s intriguing second Sophie Medina mystery (after 2013’s Multiple Exposure), the Washington, D.C., photojournalist learns from her friend Brother Kevin Boyle, a Franciscan friar and environmental scientist, that he’s on to something...
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Ellen Crosby. Minotaur, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-07655-7
Early in Crosby’s winning seventh mystery featuring Virginia vintner Lucie Montgomery (after 2011’s The Sauvignon Secret), Gino Tomassi, a member of “California winemaking royalty” whom Lucie knows by reputation, walks into the barrel room of Lucie’s
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Ellen Crosby. Minotaur, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-16486-5
Crosby’s crisp and elegant 10th Wine Country mystery (after 2018’s Harvest of Secrets) finds Virginia vintner Lucie Montgomery attending a party over Thanksgiving weekend at Hawthorne Castle, the home of 95-year-old newspaper tycoon Prescott Avery....
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Ellen Crosby. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-07662-5
In Crosby’s full-bodied eighth Wine Country mystery (after 2016’s The Champagne Conspiracy), Virginia vintner Lucie Montgomery has to swerve on a rain-slick road to avoid a head-on collision with a speeding car driven by her neighbor Jamie Vaughn,...
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Ellen Crosby. Minotaur, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-16483-4
The discovery of a skull on the property of vintner Lucie Montgomery in Atoka, Va., kick-starts Crosby’s well-crafted seventh Wine Country mystery (after 2017’s The Vineyard Victims). Besides trying to determine the origin of human remains on her...
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Ellen Crosby. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9101-3
In Crosby’s intriguing 10th Wine Country mystery (after 2019’s The Angels’ Share), vintner Lucie Montgomery is dismayed to discover the body of landscape designer Parker Lord, her good friend and adviser, in the vineyard of her family’s Virginia...
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Ellen Crosby. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9102-0
Mary Higgins Clark Award finalist Crosby’s winning 12th Wine Country mystery (after 2021’s The French Paradox) finds Virginia vintner Lucie Montgomery and fellow winemaker Quinn Santori preparing for their wedding. Days that should be filled with...
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Ellen Crosby. Severn House, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1159-0
Crosby’s uneven fourth adventure for news photographer Sophie Medina (after Blow Up) undermines its devilish central whodunit with some far-fetched backstory. Sophie once jetted around the world at a moment’s notice for the International Press...
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