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VINTAGE MURDER
At Santa Louisa’s elite Harvest Festival Dinner, real-estate agent Ellen McKenzie finds the company sparkling, the entrées exquisite…and the tension thick enough to slice with a carving knife. Temperamental master chef Otto Messinger is driving event staffers crazy—especially Ellen’s niece Sabrina. So when Sabrina finds Otto bludgeoned to death in the local winery’s fermenting tank, she’s instantly the prime suspect.
Ellen can’t be sure her niece or Sabrina’s short-tempered husband, Mark, is innocent. But she uncovers a feast of other likely suspects as she untangles Otto’s volatile double-dealing business practices. His bitter rival, a sleazy business mogul, and a less-than-sober gourmet-food writer all have choice motives and unreliable alibis. But Ellen will have to act fast when her evidence proves a cunning killer has his knives out for her…